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GENERAL  ORDERS 


ADJUTANT  A\D  I^SPECTOfi-GE^'ERAL'S  OFFICE, 

CONFEDERATE  STATES  ARMY, 

From  January  1,  1864,  to  July  1, 1864,  inclusive 


PREPARED  FROM  FILKS  OF  HEMKIUARTERS,  DEPARTMENT  OF  SOUTH 
CAROLINA,  GEORGIA.  AND  FLORIDA. 


BY 
R.  C.  GILCHRIST, 

ACTII»0  JUDGE  ADVOCATK  GENERAL. 


WITH  FULL  INDEX, 


ExPLAifATORT  N0TK8,  A^^)  srcH  Drcisions  ok  thb  War  Department 

AS  COri-n  BE  COLLECTED  TOUCHING  MATTERS  OF  GENERAL  CONCERN 
TO  THE   SERVICE. 


COLUMBIA: 

KVANS    AND    COGSWELL 

18A4. 


ANALYTICAL    INDEX 

TO 

(Scjifral  ©rders  from  Wi^  department, 

From  January  1  to  June  30,  1864. 


ABSENTEES. 


A. 

No.    No. 


Par.  Ord. 

To  be  reported  semi-monthly  to  Bureau  of  Conscription. . .  .X     57 
ACCOUTREMENTS. 

Price  of. '. IX    35 

ACTS  OF  CONGRESS. 

To  provcut  enlistment  or  enrolment  of  substitutes  in  mili- 
tarj  service  (approved  Dec.  28, 1863).  No  person  liable  to 
military  service  hereafter  allowed  to  furnish  substitute ; 
prohibits  reception  of  substitutes I       S 

To  put  an  end  to  exemption  from  military  service  of  those 
who  have  heretofore  furnished  substitutes  (approved  Jan. 
b,  1864).  No  person  shall  be  exempt  by  reason  of  having 
furnished  a  substitute;  act  not  to  affect  persons  who, 
though  not  liable,  have  furnished  substitutes I       3 

Autboriziug  tax  in  kind  on  bacon  to  bo  commuted  by  collec- 
tion of  salt  pork  as  an  equivalent  (Dec.  28,  1863) I       4 

Joint  resolutions  of  thanks  to  General  Robert  E.  Lee  and  to 

the  officers  and  soldiers  under  his  command 5 

To  reduce  the  currency,  and  t^  authorize  the  new  issue  of 

notes  and  bonds  (Feb.  17,  1864) 21 

To  provide  for  retiring  officers  of  the  army  (Feb.  17,  1864). 

To  provide  subsistence  for  sick  and  wounded  officers  in  hos- 
pitals (Feb.  13,  1864) I     25 

To  increase  commutation  value  of  rations  of  sick  and  wound- 
ed in  hospitals  (Feb.  15,  1864) I     25 

To  amend  an  act  regulating  granting  of  furloughs  and  dis- 


»-• 


5526S 


INDEX. 

charges  in  hospitals;  extending  time  to  60  days  (Feb.  17, 
1864) I     26 

To  organize  forces  for  the  war  (Feb.  17, 1864) 26 

Sec.  1.  Conscribes  all  between  ages  of  17  and  50. 
Sec.  2.  All  between  IS  and  45  to  be  retained  in  present  or-  • 
ganizatioBS.     Troops  from  same  state  to  be  placed  to- 
gether. 
Sec.  3.  Bounty  of  SlOO  six  per  cent,  bond  to  be  given  to  all 
enlisted  men  not  absent  without  leave  for  six  months 
from  April  1,  1864. 
Sec.  4.   Pev8on§  having  furnished  substitutes  no  longer 

exempt. 
Sec,  5.  Reserve  for  state  defence  and  detail  duty  formed 

of  those  between  ages  of  17  and  18  and  45  and  60. 
Sec.  6.  Those  subject  to  foregoing  section  to  enroll  them- 
selves within  30  days  if  east,  and  60  da3's  if  west,  of  the 
Mississippi  river,  and  to  organize  into  companies,  bat- 
talions, and  regiments.  , 
Sec.  7.  Those  failing  to  attend  at  rendezvous,  to  be  con- 
scribed  and  assigned  to  army  in  field. 
iS'ec.  8.  Provost  and  hospital  guards^  einploj'ees  in  Com- 
missary's and  Quartermaster's  departments,  to  bo  taken 
from  reserve  corps  who  are  unfit  for  field  duty. 
iS'ec.  9.  Penalties  on  quartermasters,  etc.,  for  violation  of 

above. 
iS'ec.  10.  Who  are  exempt  from  military  service. 
Sec.  li.  President  authorized  to  grant  details. 
iS'ec.  12.  Surgeons  of  examining  boards  not  to  be  appoint- 
ed from  the  county  whore  examination  is  to  be  made. 

To  allow  commissioned  oflRcers  rations Ill    -28 

To  allow  officers  to  i)urchase  clothing.     See.  2 Ill     28 

Forage  for  more  than  one  horso  not  to  be  issued  to  any  offi- 
cer below  rank  of  brigadier-general,  not  in  the  field.    Sec. 

8 Ill     28 

To  prevent  the  procuring,  aiding,  and  assisting  of  any  per- 
son to  desert  from  the  army  (approved  Jan.  22, 1864).     [1]  I     29 
To  aid  states  in  communicating  with  and  perfecting  records 

concerning  its  troops  (approved  Feb.  16,  1864).     [2] I    29 

To  provide  for  sustenance  of  prisoners  of  war  (approved 

Feb.  17,  1864).     [.3] I     29 

To  create  office  of  ensign  (approved  Feb.  17,  1864).     [4]....   I     29 
To  promote  officers,  etc.,  for  distinguished  skill  or  valor  (ap- 
proved Feb.  17,  1864).     [5] I     29 


INDEX.  V 

Allowing  two  quartermaster-sergeants  to  each  regiment  of 

engineer  troops  (approved  Feb.  17,  1864).     [6] I     29 

To  increase  number  of  officers  in  engineer  corps.     Feb.  17, 

1864.     [7] I     29 

To  appoint  six  militarj'  store  keepers,  with  rank  of  captain 

ofinfantry.     Feb.  17,  1864.     Sue.  2.     [7.] I     29 

Amending  act  organizing  engineer  troops.     Feb.  17.     [8]..   I     29 
Sec.  1.  Organizes  one  company  taken  from  a  division  of 

infantry,  or  twelve  regiments  of  infantry. 
Sec.  2.  Number  to  bo  iu  each  company. 
Sec.  3.  Officers  of  same. 
Sec.  4.  Organizes  companies  Into  regiments  with  fleM-ofli- 

cers. 
-^ee.  5.  Two  of  the  companies  iin  each  regiment  to  act  a« 
pontoniers. 
•    Sec.  6.   Officer  in   Engineer  bureau    to    prescribe   imple- 
ments, tools,  etc. 
Sec.  7.  Vacancies  ;  how  filled.  ^ 
Sec.  8.  Monthly  paj'  of  ofiScers. 
See.  9    Monthly  pay  of  emlisted  men. 
Sec.  10.  Mounted  engineer  troops  :  how  organized. 
Sec.  11.  Provides  for  tran.sfer  of  oflicers  of  engineer  corps 
and  engineer  troops. 
To  amend  65th  Article  of  War  relating  to  general  courts- 
martial.     Feb. 17,1864.     [9] I     29 

To  amend  act  organizing  military  courts ;  to  establish  ou6  in 

North  Alabam.a.     Feb.  1.3,  1864.     [10] I     29 

To  establish  additional  military  courts  ;  one  for  any  division 
of  cavalry  in  the  field,  and  one  for  each  state.     Feb.  16, 

1864.     [11] I     29 

Enlarging  jurisdiction  of  military  oourts.     Feb.   17,   1864. 

[12] I     29 

Sec.  2.  Members  of  military  court  to  be  assigned  to  other 
courts,  when  the  corps  to  which  they  have  be«n  at- 
tached ceases  to  exist. 
Sec.  .3.  Jurisdiction  extended  to  all  offenders  below  the 
grade  of  lieutenant-general. 
Granting  power  to  courts-martial  and  military  courts  to  com- 
pel attendance  of  civil  witncsHciJ.     Feb.  17.  1864.     [1.3]  •  •   I     29 
Sec.  2.  Expenses  of  citizen  witness;  how  paid. 
AuthoriTing  commanders  of  corps  and  departments  to  detail 
field-olBccrs  a.^  members  of  military  courts  under  certain 
circumstances.     Feb.  6,  1861.     [14] I     29 


IV 


55268 


Vi  INDEX. 

To  punisli  drunkenness  in  the  army.     Feb.  17, 1864.    [15]-.  I     29 
Sec.  2.  Any  citizen  to  report  violation  of  above. 
Sec.  3.  Upon  trial  for  drunkenness,  it  is  Lawful  to  prove 
intemperate  habits  of  accused. 
To  authorize  the  organization  of  auxiliary  bureaus  of  War 

department  west  of  Mississippi  river.     Feb.  17, 18 tU.     [16]  I     29 
Sec.  2.  General  commanding  that  department  may  as- 
iign  stafiF  officers  and  clerks  to  duty  in  these  bureaus. 
To  authorize  chaplains  to  draw  forage  for  one  horse.    Jan. 

22,1864.     [17] I     29 

Authorizing  appointment  of  a  general  and  lieutenant-gener- 
als.    Feb.  17,  1864.     [18] I     29 

iS'ec.  3.  Officers  so  appointed  to  hold  rank  only  so  long 
as  they  efliciently  discharge  the  duties  of  position. 
Partisan  rangers  to  be  disbanded,  unless  continued  as  regu- 
lar cavalry.     Feb.  17,  1864.     [19] I     29 

.^ec.  2.   Organizes  partisan  rangers  into  battalions  and 

regiments. 
See.  3.  Secretary  of  War  may  exempt  such  companies  as 
are  in  lines  of  the  enemy. 

To  regulate  impressments.     Feb.  16,  1864 I     30 

See.  1.  Articles  impressed  to  be  paid  for  at  the  time. 
Sec.  2.  Duty  of  impressing  officer  relating  to  appraisement. 
iS'ec'.  3.  Duty  of  commissianers. 
Sec.  4.  Commissioners  to  be  sworn. 
iS'ec.  5.  No  field-hand  to  bo  taken  unless  necessary. 
iSec.  6.   Kepeals  act  of  April  27,  1S6.S,  requiring  affidavit. 
iS'ec,  7.  No  impressment  made  for  benefit  of  contractors. 
iS'ec.  8.  Impressing  officer  not  authorized  to  appeal. 
To  suspend  writ  of  habeas  corpus  iu  certain  cases.     Fob.  15, 

1864 I     31 

iS'ec.  2.   Causes  of  arrest  to  be  investigated,  and  by  whom. 

See.  3.  Duty  of  officer  on  whom  writ  is  served. 

iS'ec.  4.  To  continue  in  force  90  days  after  no.xt  meeting 

of  Congress. 

To  increase  the  efficiency  of  the  army  by  the  employment  of 

free  negroes  and  slaves  in  certain  capacities.     Feb.  17, 

1864 I     32 

To  provide  an  invalid  corps.     Feb.  17,  1864.. . .'. I     34 

iSec.  1.  Officers  and  men  disabled  to  bo  retired  ;  their  rank 

and  pay  to  continue. 
Sec.  2.  To  be  examined  by  medical  examining  board. 
Sec.  3.  Those  retired  to  bo  re-examined  periodically. 


INDEX.  Vll 

Sec.  4.  Socretiiry  of  War  to  assign  those  retired  to  appro- 
priate duty. 
Sec.  6.  Shall  also  make  rules  for  examining  boards. 
Sec.  6.  How  vacancies  thus  made  are  to  be  filled. 

To  authorise  impressment  of  meat.     Feb.  17,  1864 39 

Sec.  1.  President  to  determine  when  necessary. 
Sec.  2.  Secretary  of  War  to  direct,  with  certain  limita- 
tions. 
Sec.  3.  Regulations  touching  impressment. 
Sec.  4.  Owner  shall  retain  possession,  unless  necessity  is 

urgent. 
Sec.  5.  In  case  of  disagreement,  course  to  be  pursued. 
See.  6.  Certificate  to  be  given  by  impressing  officer. 
To  provide  compensation  for  officers  who  have  performed 

staff  duty,  under  orders.     Feb.  11,  1864 XVI    42 

To  provide  tobacco  for  the  army.     Feb.  17,  1864 XVI     42 

To  authorize  appointment  of  commissaries  for  regiments  of 

cavalry.     May  23,  1864.     [1] I    53 

To  amend  act  creating  ensign.     May  31,  1864.     [2] I     53 

To  f\irnish  transportation  to  officers  of  army  and  navy  while 

travelling  under  orders.     June  4, 1864.     [3] I     53 

To  provide  for  appointment  of  additional  military  store- 
keepers.    June  4, 1864.     [4] I     63 

To  increase  pay  of  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates. 

June9,1864.     [5] ......I     53 

To  amend  act  establishing  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau.   June  9, 

18G4.     [6] I     63 

For  payment  of  commissioners  appointed  under  act  suspend- 
ing writ  of  habeas  corpus  in  certain  cases.    June  9,  1864. 

[7] I     53 

Sec.  2.  Powers  conferred  on  commissioners. 
To  provide  for  the  compensation  of  non-commissioned  offi- 
cers,  soldiers,   sailors,  or  marines   on   detailed   service. 

June9,1864.     [8] I     53 

<Sec.  It  Continues  their  regular  pay. 
Sec.  2.  Gives  them  extra  piij-  and  allowances. 
Sec.  3.  Provides  for  compensation  when  with  govern- 
ment contractors. 
To  organize  a  corps  of  scouts  and  guides  to  facilitate  com- 
munication with  trans-Mi88iBsi]ipi  department.     June  10, 

1864.      [9] I     53 

Sec.  1.  Number  of  officers. 

Sec.  2.  Four  companies  to  be  raised. 


VUl  INDEX. 

Sec.  3.  Officers  and  men  to  bo  detailed  from  army. 
Sec.  4.  How  ^rmed  and  equipped. 
To   amend  the  act  establishing  military  courts.     June  14, 

1864.     [10] I     63 

Sec.  1.  Confers  additional  powers  on  commanders. 
Sec.  2.  Party  acquitted  to  be  immediately  discharged. 
To  authorize  the  formation  of  new  commands  composed  of 
supernumerary  oflScers  who  may  resign  to  join  such  com- 
mands.    June  14,  18C4.     [11] ....1     63 

Sec.  2.  Allows  supernumerary  oflScer  to  join. 
Sec.  3.  Restricts  appointment  of  officers. 
To    amend    act  providing   invalid    corps.      June    1,    1864. 

[12] I     63 

To  amend  act  exempting  certain  religious  denominations. 

June7,1864.    [13] I     53 

To  authorize  appointment  of  quartermasters  and  assistant 

quartermasters  and  commissaries.     June  14,  1864.     [14]  I     63 
Sec.  1.  Prescribes  rank  and  duties. 
Sec.  2.  Quartermasters  of  regiments  or  battalions. 
Sec.  3.  If  services  can  be  dispensed  with,  to  be  dropped 

from  rolls. 
Sec.  4.  Quartermaster  for  state  and  each  congressional 
district. 
To  amend  act  aiding  state  in  communicating  with  and  per- 
fecting record  of  its  troops.     May  31,  1864.     [15] I     53 

To    amend   acts  in   regard    to    chaplains.      May   31,   1864. 

[16] I     63 

To  provide  for  appointment  of  officers  with  temporary  rank 

and  command.     May  31,  1864.     [17] I     63 

To  allow  sick  and  wounded  officers  of  the  army  transporta- 
tion to  their  homos,  and  hospital  accommodations.     June 

10,1864.    [18] I     54 

To  allow  those  whose  homes  are  brought  within  Confederate 
lines  privilege  of  enrolling  within  thirty  days  after  reoc- 

cupation.     Juno  10,  1864.     [19] I     63 

To  graduate  pay  of  general  officers.    June  10,  1864.     [20]  I     53 
To  appoint  officers   for  ordnance   duty.     June  10,    1864. 

[21] V I     53 

To  amend  act  organizing  military  courts.    June  14.  1864. 

[22] I     63 

To   provide  and   organize  general   staff.     June   14,  1864. 

[23] ; I     53 

Sec.  1.  Appointments  aad  promotions  in. 


INDEX.  i3C 

Seo.  2.  Assignment  ol. 

Sec.  3.  Stuff  of  general  commanding  army  in  field. 

Sec.  i.  StaflF  of  liouteuant-geueral   commanding  corp» 

d'armee. 
Sec.  5.  Staff  of  major-general  oommauding  division. 
Sec.  6.    Staff   of  brigadier-general    commanding    bri- 
gade, 
^ec.  7.  ftutborizes  President  to  regnlate  tbe  same. 
Sec.  8.  Appoiiitments  to  be  made  from  those  in  service. 
To  amend  act  organi/iug  military  courts.     June  14,  1864. 

[24] I     ^3 

To  amend  laws  relating  to  commutation  value  of  hospital 

rations.     June  14,  1864.     [25] I     53 

To  promote   eflicieucy  of   cavalry  service.     June    7,    1864. 

[26] • I     53 

Sec.  1.  Dismounts  those  misbehaving. 
iSec.  2.  Impresses  their  horses. 
To  provide  for  establishment  and  payment  of  claims  of  prop- 
erty taken  or  informally  impressed  for  the  army.     June 

14,1864 I     54 

To  amend  act  allowing  commissioned  officers  of  the  army 

rations,  etc.     June  7,  1804 1     52 

To  allow  transportation  to  members  of  Congress   in  certain 

cases.     June  8, 1864 II     52 

AGENTS. 

Appointed  for  examination  of  certain  claims  against  govern- 
ment  • I     54 

Duties  of,  in  examining  claims  against  government.  Ill,  IV,  V     54 

AMENDMENTS. 

General  Orders,  No.  75  (1863),  clause  .3,  paragraph  II,  by..    I     2  2 
General  Orders,  No.  7,  current  series,  clause  3,  paragraph 

II,  by 11     22 

General  Orders,  No.  13,  current  series,  paragraph  V,  by. ...    I     28 

Gener.vl  Orders,  No.  67  (1863),  paragraph   II,  by II     28 

Act  of  March  20,  1863,  relating  to  engineer  troops,  by  act  of 

Fobrujiry  14,  1864.     [6] 1-29 

Act  of  April  1,  1862,  relating  to  engineer  corps,  by  idem.. .    I     29 

65th  Article  of  War,  by  act  of  February  17,  1864.     [9] I     29 

Act  organizing  military  courts,  by  act  of  February  13,  1864. 

[10] .••   I     29 

Act  defining  powers  of  military  courts,  by  act  of  February 

17,1864.      [12] I     29 


X  INDEX. 

Act  of  April  21,  1862,  to  punish  drunkennesss  in   army, 

by  act  of  February  ir,  18f.J.      [15] I     29 

General  Orders,  Nos.  37  and  161  (1863),  by.. .: 30 

Paragraph  1,111  Army  Regulations,  by VII       8 

General  Orders,  No.  13,  current  series,  paragraph  VI,  relating 

to  payment  of  soldiers  on  descriptive  lists,  by VI     35 

General    Orders,  No.   86  (1863),  paragraph  II,  prescribing 

minimum  of  companies  of  infantry  and  cavalry,  by. . .  .VII  42 
General  Orders,  No.  34,  paragraph  IV,  and  General  Orders, 

No.  37,  paragraph  I,  current  series,  by IX     42 

General  Orders,  No.  42,  paragraph  XVII,  current  series,  pre- 
scribing tobacco  ration,  by  ., X    45 

General  Orders,  No.  107,  paragraph  II  (1863),  by V     48 

General  Orders,  No.  6,  current  series,  paragraph  II,  by. . .  .VI  48 
Act  allowing  commissioned  officers  rations,  by  act  of  June 

7,1864 I     52 

Act  creating  ensign,  by  act  of  May  31,  1864.     [2] I     53 

Act  establishing  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau,  by  act  of  June 

9,    1864.     [6] I     53 

Act  establishing  military  courts,  by  act  of  June  14,  1864. 

[10]  [22]   [24] I     53 

Act  establishing  invalid   corps,   by   act   of  June    1,    1864. 

[12] I     53 

Act   organizing    forces    for   the    war,   by   act   of    Juno   7, 

1864.     [13] I     53 

Act  organizing  forces  for  the  war,  by  act  of  June  10,  1864. 

[19] I     53 

Act  aiding  state  to  perfect  records,  by  act  of  May  31,  1864. 

[15] , I     53 

Act  relating  to  hospital  rations,  by  act  of  June  14,  1864. 

[25] I     53 

Act  relating  to  chaplains,  by  act  of  May  31,  1864.     [16]. . . .   I     53 

ARMS. 

Manufacture  of  sword  bayonets  to  be  discontinued VI       6 

Persons  not  subject  to  Articles  of  War  punished  for  pur- 
chasing from  soldiers.     Act  of  January  22,  1864.     [!]....!     29 

Schedule  of  cost  of IX     35 

ARMY  REGULATIONS. 

Paragraphs  1,129,  1,130,  1,131,  and  1,132,  concerning  com- 
mutation of  rations,  revoked , I       8 

Paragragh  1,111,  concerning  issues  to  hospitals, etc.,  amend- 
ed  VII      8 


INDEX.  XI 

Paragraph  170  revoked  by Ill     35 

Paragraph  166  construed  by II     35 

ARSENAL. 

At  Savannah,  established XI     42 

ARTICLES  OF  WAR. 

65,  amended  by  act  of  February  17, 1864.     [9] I    29 

Attention  of  army  called  to  22d  Article 40 

ARTILLERY. 

Ordnance    stores,  in,  lost   or  destroyed;    damage  of,   how 

assessed  ;  responsibility  for,  how  aBcertained IV       6 

ASSIGNMENTS. 

Of  General  Braxton  Bragg  at  scat  of  government 23 

Of    Major-General    Elzey    to     command    of    "Maryland 

Line" VII     38 

Of  Colonel  Bradley  T.  Johnson  to  command  of  Camp 
Howard VII     38 

B. 

BAYONETS. 

Manufacture  of  sword  to  bo  discontinued  ;  triangular  to  be 

substituted , VI       6 

BOARDS. 

Of  survey  to  be  appointed  by  brigade  or  district  command- 
er, to  asses.?  value  of,  or  damage  to,  ordiyiuce  stores  lost  or 
damaged I       6 

Decision  of  such,  with  approval  of  brigade  or  district  com- 
mander, to  be  final  (amended  by  paragraph  VI,  General 
Orders,  No.  48,  current  series) II       6 

Statement  of  stoppages  made  as  above,  to  be  furnished  to 
brigade  inspector  by  brigade  ordnance  officer Ill       6 

Medical  examining,  for  conscripts,  to  be  composed  of  two 

medical  officers  and  one  employed  surgeon I     11 

Medical  examining,  for  conscripts,  to  hold  continuous  ses- 
sions in  several  counties  of  respective  districts,  to  facili- 
tate duties  prescribed  in  General  Orders,  No.  141,  of 
1863 I     11 

Certificates  and  recr>mmendations  by  medical  examining,  in 
rotincction  with  above  duties,  to  be  signed  by  both  medical 
officers  (see  General  Orders,  No.  141,  of  1863) 11     11 

Temporary  may  bo  organized  to  obtain   information,  etc., 

relative  (.o  extmi>lionfl  under  act  of  Febiuary  17,  1864. . .    I     26 


XU  INDEX. 

Examining,  to  forward  copy  of  monthly  report  of  exami- 
nations   VIII     26 

•  Oflicers  of  medical  examining,  will  not  be  assigned  to  own 

congressional  district .' IX     26 

Of  appraisers  for  property  impressed V     30 

Of  appraisers  to  deturmine  wiiothor  property  should  be  im- 
pressed  YI     30 

Medical  examining  to  examine  officers  and  soldiers  to  be 
placed  in  "invalid  corps;"  duties  connected  Ibere- 
witb..., Ill     34 

Will  not  retire  officers,  but  forward  certificates IV  34,  I     37 

To  report  officers  and  soldiers  who  do  not  appear  periodical- 
ly for  re-examination. VIII     34 

To  forward  certificates  retiring  officers,  and  tbeiroriginal  ap- 
plication, through  commanding  general IX    42 

To  number  certificate  of  retirement '. Ill,  IV     37 

C. 
CAVALRY. 

Member  of,  not  providing  himself  with  horse  shall  sdrve  on 

foot,  and  be  transferred II     28 

Impressment  of  horses  for,  prohibited II     45 

Commissary  allowed  each  regiment  of.    Act  of  May  23, 1864. 

[1] I     53 

Members  of,  who  misbehave,  to  be  placed  in  infantry.     Act 

of  June  7,  1863.    'T;20] I     53 

Commanding  oflicers  of,  charged  with  carrying  out  above. .  .II     65 

CERTIFICATES. 

Of  retirement;  forms  for XV     34 

Retiring  officers;  how  forwarded I,  III,  35,  IX     42 

CHAPLAINS. 

May  receive  rations  or  commutation  thereof VII     22 

May    draw   forage   for   horse.     Act    of  January   22,    1864. 

[17].... I     29 

Allowed  battalions  and  geaer.al  hospitals.      Act  of  May  31, 

1864.     [IG] I     63 

CLAIMS. 

For  property  taken  or  informally  impressed  for  army  ;   how 

established  and  paiil.      Act  of  Juno  14,  L864 I     64 

Agents  for  establishment  of,  appointed I     64 

For  property  taken,  etc. ;  how  presented II     54 


TNPEX.  Xlll 

CLOTHING. 

Account  of  soldier;  how  settled,  in  the  event  of  the  loss  of 
company  records I     13 

Account  of  soldiers;  how  adjusted,  where  companies  have 
been  deprived  of  all  officers  bj-  casualties  of  war II     13 

Issued  during  year,  to  bo  stated  opposite  name  of  soldier  on 
muster-roU  at  annual  settlement  directed  in  General  Or- 
ders, No.  100,  of  1862 Ill     13 

Will  be  issued  to  men  upon  requisition  of  immediate  com- 
manding officer  (amended  by  paragraph  I,  General  Or- 
ders,No.28) V  13,  I     23 

Oflicers  permitted  to  purchase.     Act  of  Congress Ill     28 

Of  soldiers;  persons  not  subject  to  Articles  of  War  punished     * 
for  purchasing.     Act  of  January  22,  1864.     [1] I     29 

Accounts  of  detach  ed  men,  made  on  descriptive  rolls XII     42 

COMMANDING  OFFICERS. 

Can  not  grant  themselves  leave • II     35 

Not  allowed  to  assign  oflBccrs  to  duty  beyond  limits  of  their 
departments IV     36 

Of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  to  make  semi-monthly  report 
of  deserters  and  absentees  to  Bureau  of  Conscription. . .  .X     68 

Of  department,  etc.,  have  direction  of  reserve  forces  turned 

over  to  them XI     57 

COMMISSARIES. 

Number  and  rank  of  increased.  Act  of  .June  14,  1864. 
[14] I     63 

One  to  each  regiment  or  battalion  left  to  discretion  of  Presi- 
dent.     (Wem),  section  2 I     63 

.    Those  who  may  be  dispensed  with  to  be  dropped  from  the 

rolls.     (Idem),   section  3 I*    63 

Allowed  regiment  of  cavalry.     Act  of  May  23,  1864.     [1]..    I     53 

Of  companies  wdered  away,  to  receive  hospital  fund  which 

has  accrued  on  its  account IX     67 

COM>IISSIONERS. 

Of  appraisement  to  summon  witnesses  to  deterlnine  value 
of  properly  impressed.     Act  of  Feb.  16,  1864,  section  3. . .   I     .SO 

Of  appraisement  to  be  sworn,     (/dcm,  section  4.) I     30 

On  "  habeas  corpus  ;"  duties  of II     31 

COMPANY  COMMANDKRS. 

To  stop  on  muster-rolls  amounts  reported  by  ordnance  offi- 
cer as  chargeable  against   privates   for  loss  or   damage  to 
ordnnnco  store?    (amended  by  General  Orders,    No.    48,    • 
paragraph  VI. » II       6 


XIV  INDEX. 

Whoso  companies  arc  below  iiiininium  to  send  to  comman- 
dant of  conscripts  of  state  certified  rolls  of  companies, 
othoiwisc  conscripts  will  not  be  assigned  IV       6 

Clothing  accounts  of  soldiers;  how  adjusted  by,  in  the  event 

of  loss  of  company  records I     13 

To  state,  opposite  each  name  on  muster-roll,  at  annual  set- 
tlement of  clothing,  amount  issued  during  the  year Ill     1 3 

Failing  to  thus  account  for  clothing,  render  themselves  lia- 
ble for  value TV     13 

CONSCRIPTS. 

Enrolled,  can  not  demand  as  a  right  to  choose  company  or 

regiment  in  which  to  servo *. 2 

Must  not  bo  assigned  to  organizations  from   other  states ; 

wishes  in  general  to  be  consulted 2 

Assignments  of,  made  by  commandants  of,  in  good  faith,  not 

regarded  as  fit  subjects  for  complaint 2 

Persons  liable  as,  under  act  January  5,  1864,  placed  on  same 

footing  as  others  hitherto  liable  as < II       3 

Persons  liable  as,  under  act  January  5,  186 1,  to  report  to 
enrolling  officers  by  1st  of  February,  1804,  otherwise  will 
be  held  for  assignment  without  privilege  of  volunteer- 
ing  , Ill       3 

Persons  liable  as,  under  above  act,  previous  to  enrolment 
may  volunteer  in  organizations  in  service  April  16,  1862, 
provided,  etc.  (revoked  by  paragraph  I,  General  Orders, 
No.  7) IV      3 

Persons  liable  as,  under  above  act,  who  report  to  enrolling 

officer,  may  be  allowed  furlough  of  ten  days V       3 

Persons   rendered  liable  as,   under   this   order,   must   pass 

through  camp  of  instruction  of  state  to  which  belong. .  .VI       3 

Unfit  for  duty  in  the  field,  will  be  assigned  as  recommended 
by  board  of  examiners VII     26 

Who  hnvo  joined  companies  in  local  service  will  be  as- 
signed to  companies  in  general  service VIII     35 

Accepted  for  field  duty,  but  found  disqualified,  certificates 

to  set  forth  service  for  which  they  are  fitted V    48 

Between  l6  and  18  and  45  and  50,  allowed  30  days  after  re- 
occupation  of  their  homes  by  Confederate  forces.      Act  of 

June  10,  1864.      [19] I     53 

CONSCRIPTION,  BUREAU  OF. 

Charged  with  adopting  regulations  for  enforcement  of  order 
concerning  enrolment  of  persons  rendered  liable  by  act 
January  5,  1864 VII       3 


INDEX.  XV 

To  give  instruction?  for  revision  of  exemptions  licrotoforo 

granted VIII      3 

Charged  with  .all  measures  necessary  for  enrolment,  enlist- 
ment, etc.,  of  all  persons  rendered  liable  by  act  of  Febru- 
ary 17,  1864..' I     26 

To  organize  efficient  agencies  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of 

foregoing  act ...II     26 

May  organize  temporary  boards  to  obtain  information,  etc., 

relative  to  exemptions  and  details II     26 

Will  direct  enrolment  of  free  negroes  and    slaves  under  the 

act  of  February  17,  1864 II     32 

Will  enroll  all  persons  between  16  and  18  and  45  and  50  ...  I     33 

Ordered  to  organize  reserve  forces,  and  how VII    45 

OfiScers,  privates,  etc.,  engaged  in ;  bow  paid V  to  VIII     57 

Expenses  of ;  how  paid , VI     57 

Superintendent  of,  to  establish  regulations  for  control  of 
disbursing  officers  of  conscript  service VIII     57 

COURTS-MARTIAL. 

Who  may  appoint  (amendment  of  65th  Article  of  War).     Act 

of  February  17,  1864.     [9] I     29 

Sentences;  how  confirmed  and  executed.     {Idem.) 

May  compel  attendance  of  civilian  witnoss.  Act  of  Febru- 
ary 17,  186^.     LIS] I     29 

Proceedings  of,  to  be  forwarded  to  War  department  without 

delay I     36 

Record  of;  how  made  and  endorsed TI     36 

Officers  appearing  before,  in  behalf  of  prisoner,  must  receive 
no  compensation.. VI     45 

Any  person  acquitted  by,  to  be  immediately  discharged.   Act 

of  June  14,  1864.     [10],  section  2   , I     53 

For  trials  by,  see  "  Military  Trials."    See  "  Military  Courts." 

D. 

DESCRIPTIVE  LISTS. 

Amounts  paid  soldiers  on,  to  be  endorsed  thereon  by  quarter- 
master, and  certified  copy  of  kept  by  him  for  his 
files VI  13,  III     22 

Enlisted  men  detached,  etc.,  for  a  longer  period  than  30  days, 

will  be  furnished  with,  but  are Ill     22 

Soldiers  in  hospitals  not  furnished  with,  to  bo  provided  by 

surgeon  in  charge Ill     22 

On  return  of  soldier  to  command,  to  be  destroyed Ill    22 


XVI  INDEX. 

DESERTERS. 

Persons  not  subject  to  Articles  of  War  punished  for  aiding. 

Act  of  January  22,  lH(5t.     [1] I     29 

Enlistment  of,  forbidden.     Attention' called  to   22d  Article 

of  War 40 

DETAILS. 

Enlisted  men  on,  on  accQnnt  of  disability,  in  Richmond,  ra- 
tions commuted  at  $1  25  per  diem II       8 

Application  for,  to  be  made  to  the  enrolling  officer  of  the 
county,  and  be  supported  by  testimony  under  oath Ill     2<i 

Application  for,  refused,  appeal  allowed  to  Bureau  of  Con- 
scription and  War  department Ill     26 

No  application  entertained  by  War  de|)artment  unless -on 

appeal Ill     26 

.    Of  enlisted  men  ceasingj'payments  to  be  noted  on  descrip- 
tive lists,  to  be  delivered  to  company  commander XV     -12 

Soldiers,  etc.,  allowed  regular  pay.     Act  of  June  9,  1864. 

[8] I     53 

Soldiers,  etc.,  allowed  extra  pay  of  two  dollars  a  daj',  etc. 

(Idem,  section  2) I     63 

Soldiers,'  etc.,  working  with  government  contractors,  to  be 

compensated  by  wages,     (/rfewt,  section  3.) I     53 

Soldiers,  etc.,  to  serve  in  reserve  forces Ill     57 

DRUNKENNESS. 

In  army  punished.     Act  of  Feb.  17,  1864.     [15] I     29 

Any  citizen  authorized  to  report  cases  of.    (f'fem.)., . , I     29 

In  trial  for,  lawful  to  prove  habits  of  accuHod.      [Idem,  sec- 
tion 3.) I     29 

E. 
ENGINEER. 

Corps  of,  increased.     Act  of  Fob.  17,  1864.     [7] I     29 

Troops,  company  to  be  selected  from  division  of  inlaiitry  or 
twelve     regiments;     how    organized.     Act    of    Feb.    17, 

1864.     [8] I     29 

Sec.     2.  Number  of  enlisted  men  in  each  company. 
Sec,     3.  Number  of  o/Iicers  in  each  company. 
Sec.     4.  To  be  organized  into  regiments,  etc. 
Sec.     5.  Two  companies  to  act  as  pontoniers. 
*S'ec.     6.  Implenient.s,etP.,prescribedby  Engineer  bureau. 
.  Sec.     7.  Vacancies ;  how  filled. 
-S'er.     8.  Pay  of  officers. 


INDEX.  XVU 

Sec.     9.  Pay  of  enlisted  men. 
Sec.  10.  Mounted  to  be  selected  from  cavalry. 
Sec.  11.  Officers  of  engineer  corps  and  engineer  troops 
may  be  transferred. 
ENROLLING  OFFICERS. 

To  enroll  persons  rendered  liable  to  conscription  by  act  of 

Congress  revoking  substitute  law ..IV       3 

May  grant  furloughs  of  ten  days  to  persons  who  report  for 

enrolment  under  above  act V       3 

To  report  enrolment  of  volunteers  to  company  command- 
er   IV    22 

ENSIGN. 

One  with  rank,  etc.,  of  first  lieutenant  to  be  appointed  for 

each  regiment  of  infantry.     Act  of  Feb.  17,  1864.     [4]  . .   I     29 
Appointed  to  each  battalion  of  infantry.     Act  of  May  31, 

1864.     [2] I     53 

EXCHANGE  NOTICE. 

Number  8... U 

Number  10 60 

Number  11 60 

EXEMPTION. 

Revoking,  granted    to   persons   by   reason  of  substitution. 

Act  of  Congress,  Jan.  b,  1864 I       3 

Heretofore  granted  subject  to  revision,  and,  if  improper,  to 

be  re voked '• .  .VIII       3 

Applications  for  to  be  made  to  enrolling  officer  of  county, 

supported  by  testimony  under  oath Ill     26 

Who  entitled  to.     Act  of  Congress,  Feb.  17,  1864.  section  10         26 

Granted  to  certain  religious  denominations.     Act  of  June  7, 

1864.     [13] I     63 

In  .shove  cases  revoked  when  obtained  by  fraud.     {Idem, 

section  2.) • I     53 

Applications  for  refused,  appeal  allowed  to  Bureau  of  Con- 
scription and  War  department Ill     26 

No  application  for  entertained  by  War  department,  unless 

on  appeal Ill     26 

For  production  of  provisions  for  overseers,  etc.,  to  be  made 

to  enrolling  ofiScer,  supported  by  testimony  under  oath. .  .IV     26 

Applications  for,  by  officers,  etc.  of  railroad  companies,  to 

be  made  to  state  commandant  of  conscripts V     26 

Certificat«s  of  to  be  signed    by  examining  board,  and  ap- 
proved by  enrolling  officer VII     26 

■ 


XViii  INDEX. 

Applicationa  for,  under  third  and  sixth  articlcg  of  tenth  sec- 
tion of  above  net,  to  bo  made  to  local  enrolling  ofBcer. . .  .V     28 

Applications  for,  by  railroad  employees,  to  be  made  to  state 
commandant  of  conscripts V     26 

For  disability,  how  certificates  should  be  made VII     26 

Of  otficers  nominated  by  President,  or  appointed  by  judges 
of  district  courts,  etc • XI     26 

Of  those  of  certain  religious  faith  who  have  paid  tax  of 
$500 XII     26 

Applications  for,  in  the  case  of  free  negroes  and  slaves,  will 

be  made  to  enrolling  officer Ill     32 

From  impressment  of  milch  cows  and  breeding  stock... VIII     .39 
EXPORTATIONS. 

Of  certain  articles  restricted .' . . .  I  -4.3 

Duty  of  commanding  generals  in  relation  to II     43 

To  Mexico,  contrary  to  regulations,  vessel  or  instrument  of 

transport  to  be  detained Ill     43 

Prohibited  articles,  in  certain  cases,  to  be  detained  for  in- 

qtiiry IV    43 

All  vehicles,  animals,  slaves,  cotton,  etc.,  seized,  to  be  de- 
livered to  Confederate  States  marshal,  and  his  dutj'  there- 
on  V     43 

When  lawful,  not  to  be  interfered  with,  unless  in  danger  of 
falling  into  the  enemy's  hands VI    43 

P. 
FORAGE.  ' 

Not  to  be  issued  for  more  than  one  horse  to  any  oflicer  under 
rank    of  brigadier  general,  or  not   in    the    field.     Act  of 

Congrejrs,  section  3 Ill     28 

FORMS. 

Of  certificates  for  retiring  soldiers  and  oflicers XV     34 

FREE  NEGROES. 

To  be  employed  in  the  army  in  certain  ciipaeities.  Act  of 
Feb.  ir,  1804 i     32 

All  between  eighteen  and  fifty  shall  be  held  liable  to  per- 
form certain  duties.     {Idem.) 

Who  may  be  exempted.     {Idem.) I,  II     32 

Application  for  exemption  ;  how  made Ill     .32 

To  be  taken  in  preference  to  slaves IV     32 

FDRLOUGHS. 

To  sick  in  hospitals  not  to  be  granted  unless  for  sixty  days. 

Act  of  Congress,  Fob.  17,  1864.     (1,  sec.  3.) II     25 


INDEX.  XIX 

G. 
GENERAL  OFFICERS. 

President  may   appoint,  for   trans-Mississippi   department. 

Act  of  Feb.  17,  1864.     [18] I     29 

President  may  appoint  lieutenant-generals   at  his  discre- 
tion.    (Idem,  SCO.  2.) I     29 

Appointed,  as   above,  to  hold  rank  only  during  efficiency. 

(/rfem,  s^ec.  3.) I     29 

.  Commanding  armies,  etc.,  to  decide  when  impressments  are 

necessary - Ill     30 

.  Commanding  trans-Mississippi  department,  to    act  as  War 

department  in  matter.?  relating  to  habeas  corpus V     31 

Will   also    superintend  execution  of  act  of  Feb.  17,  1864, 

relating  to  impressment  of  slares : VI     32 

Will  not  assign  oflieers  to  duty  in  commands  beyond  limits 

of  their  department - IV     35 

Will  forward  men  transferred  to  "Maryland  Line" V     38 

Commanding  departments  and  armies  empowered  to  make 

impressment  of  meat II     38 

Commanding  departments  and  districts  empowered  to  super- 
intend and  regulate  exportation  cf  certain  articles II     43 

With  temporary  rank    and   command   authorized.     Act   of 

May31,186i.     [17] I     63 

Pay  of,  graduated.     Act  of  June  10,  1864.     [20] I     53 

Charged  with  dismouuting  those  in  cavalry  service  who  mis- 
behave  II     55 

To  furnish  transportation  to  members  of  Congress  in  certain 

cases.     Act  of  June  8,  1864 II     52 

Comm.anding  departments  and  districts  to  have  direction  of 

reserve  forces  turned  over  to  them XI     57 

Of  reserve  forces  to  have  permanent  control  and  direction 

of  the  same XI     57 

Commanding  reserves  will  be  held  responsible  fur  their  effi- 
ciency    XIII     57 

Commanding   reserves    will   grant   furloughs   to    his   com- 
mand  XIV     67 

H. 

HABEAS  CORPUS.      • 

Writ  of,  suspended  in  certain  cases  (act  of  Feb.  10,  1864). .         .".1 
Commissioners  to  bo  appointed  to  investigate  causes  of  ar- 
rest, and  duty  of II     .31 

Duty  of  offiorr  on  whom  writ  of  is  (>ervcd IV,  III     31 


XX  INDEX. 

Compensation  of  oommisaion era  of.  Act  of  June  9, 1864.  [7]  I     53 

Powers  of  commisaioners  of.     ( Idem) I     53 

HORSE. 

Of  chaplains  in  field,  allowed  forage I     29 

Impreesed,  not  to  be  taken  or  kept  by  oflBcers '. . ,  .Y     46 

No  officer  under   brigadier  allowed  forage  for  more  than 

one.     Sec.  3 HI     28 

State  officer  engaged  in  perfecting  records  concerning  troops 

of  state  may  draw  forage  for.     Act  of  May  31,  1864.  [15]  I     63 

Of  cavalry  dismounted  for  misbehavior,  to  be  taken   for  use 

of  army.     Act  of  June.7,  18G4.     [26] I     53 

HOSPITALS. 

Upon  death  of  soldier  in,  statement  of  la^t  payment  made 
him  to  be  forwarded  by  medical  officer  in  charge  to  Sec- 
ond Auditor II       1 

Fund  of,  within  five  thousand  dollars,  accruing  at  general, 
may  be  transferred  to  other  general,  on  order  of  Medical 
Director  or  Surgeon-General VII       ft 

Issues  to,  made  on  returns  by  medical  officers  for  such  pro- 
visions only  as  are  required  for  sick  and  wounded VII       8 

Commuted  value  of  rations  for,  $1  25  per  diem VII       8 

Rations  for,  same  as  to  soldier  in  field VII       8 

Attendants  can  not  draw  rations,  but  will  have  them  com- 
muted at  $1  25  per  diem  (revoked  by  paragraph  IV,  Gen- 
eral Ordcr-s,  No.  25) VIII       8 

Commuted  value  of  rations  in,  not  to  exceed  two  and  a  half 

dollars  (act  of  Congress,  February  15,  sec.  2) I,  V     26 

Accommodatiou  allowed  to  sick  and  wounded  officers.  Reso- 
lution of  June  10,  1864.     [18] I     53 

Rations  of,  commuted  at  cost  and  100  per  cent.  Act  of  June 

14,1864.     [25] I     63 

Subsistence  allowed  to  officers  in  (act  of  Congress,  Feb.  13, 

1864,  .see.  1) I,  VI     25 

Furloughs  granted  in,  extended  to  sixty  days  (act  of  Con- 
gress, February  17,  1804,  sec.  3) I,  II     25 

Rations  issued  to  attendantH  in  field  hospitals  and  female 
attendants  in  general  hospitals.  Rations  of  male  attend- 
ants in  general  hospitals  to  bo  commuted IV     25 

Funds  accrue  in  all  hospitals Ill     25 

Surgeons  in  charge  of,  to  note  payments  on  desJcriptive  lists, 

to  bo  returned  to  company  commander XV     42 

Fund  accruing  on  account  of  command  ordered  away,  to  be 

turned  over  |o  commisfiiry  of  such  command IX     67 


INDKX.  XXI 

I. 

IMPRESSMENT. 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  iu  Virginia 9,  41,  47 

Authority  for  of  iron,  extended  to  impressment  of  ore,  tim- 
ber, and  all  articles  essential  to  its  production  and  manu- 
facture   10 

Of  slaves  ;  modification  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No. 

138,  1863 20 

Of  slaves ;-compensation  for  services;  how  established 20 

Payment  to  be  made  at  time  of,  unless  owner  appeals.     Act 

of  February  16,  1864,  section  1 I  30 

May  be  made  for  necessary  supplies  , II  30 

By  whose  order  made Ill  30 

Application  in  writing  to  be  first  made  to  owner  or  bailee. IV  30 

Property  bound  thereby  until  completion  of  negotiation..  .IV  30 

Duties  of  officer,  if  offer  refused V  30 

Articles  free  from VI  30 

Field-hands  free  from.     Act  of  February  16,  1864,  sec  5...   I  S 

None  to  be  made  for  benefit  of  contractors.    {Idem,  sec.  7.).   I  3 
Officer  can  not   enter   appeal   from   decision   of  appraisers. 

(/rf«jn,  sec.  8.) I  3 

Of  slaves  for  service  in  the  army,  when  they  can  not  other- 
wise be  obtained.     Act  of  February  17, 1864 I  3 

Application  for  exemption  from:  when  and  how  made. . .  .Ill  3?- 

Regulations  for  officers  charged  with IV  32 

To  be  made  by  special  order  from  War  department  .' V  32 

Of  meat  for  use  of  army  authorized.     Act  of  February  17, 

1864 39 

Of  meat  ordered I  39 

The  power  to  make,  conferred  upon  commanding  generals 
and  chief  of  subsistence.    (See  Gomminaioners  and  Apprain- 

ere) II  39 

Duties  of  officers  charged  with Ill,  IV  39 

Differences  arising;  how  settled V  39 

Reports  of,  to  be  made  to  Chief  of  Bureau  of  Subsistence.  ."VI  ?0 

Milch  cows  and  breeding   stock  exempted  from VIII  30 

Of  horses  for  cavalry  sarvice  prohibited II  46 

Hfirries  not  to  be  sold  or  assigned  to  officers V  46 

INSPECTION. 

Reports  to  be  forwarded  monthly  ;  how  endorsed 1  42 

Will  be  made  tri-monthly  of  brigades,  semi-monthly  of  di- 
visions, and  monthly  of  corps Ill  42 

Blanks  will  he  furnished  on  requisition IV  42 


XXii  INDEX. 

INSPECTORS. 

Officers  on  inspection  duty  allowed  travelling  exponsea  ....   I     35 

Army,  will  forward  reports  of  corps,  division,  and  brigade 

inspectors n II    42 

Ranking,  will  inspect  at  the  same  time  with  subordinate  in- 
spectors  Ill     42 

Circular  to,  prescribing  duties Appendix,  page  165 

INVALID  CORPS. 

OlTicers,  etc.,  disabled  by  wounds  or  disease  contracted  in  ser- 
vice, are  to  be  retired  or  discharged;  rank  and  pay  to  con- 
tinue.    Act  of  February  17,  1S64 1     34 

Extended   to  embrace  those  in  the  navy  and  marine  corps. 

Act  of  June  1,  1864 I     53 

Applications  for ;  how  made II     34 

If  application  be  granted,  or  disapproved,  the  duties  of  ex- 

n mining  board Ill     34 

Odicers  will  be  retired  only  by  War  department. . .  .IV  34,  IX     42 

Member  of,  if  fit  for  duty  in  some  department,  it  will  be  in- 
dicated in  certificate. V     34 

Members  of,  will  present  themselves  for  ro-examination  every 

six  months VII     34 

Officers  in,  not  entitled  to  commutation  unless  when  assign- 
ed to  duty;  how  paid IX     34 

Soldiers  in;  how  paid  and  clothed X,  XI     34 

Forms  and  certificates  to  be  used  for XV     34 

L. 
LEAVES  OF  ABSENCE. 

Commanding  officers  not  authorized  to  grant  themselves. .  .II     35 
Commander  of  a  post  not  authorized  to  grant,  without  per- 
mission from  general  commanding ^. . . .  Ill     35 

How  and  by  whom  granted  to  reserve  forces XIV     57 

LOCAL  DEFENCE. 

Workmen  employed  in  nitre  corps  may  be  organized  and 

armed  for I     18 

Residents  between '17  and  18  and  45  and  50  years,  to  organ- 
ize themselves  for  state  defence  and*  detail  duty.     Act  of 

Feb.  17,  1864,  sec.  5 I    26 

Those  liable  to  enrolment  for,  to  report  within  thirty  days. II     33 

Privileges  of  those  liable  to  enrolment  for Ill     33 

Penalties  of  those  neglecting  to  enroll  for II    33 

Minimum  number  of  artillery,  infantry,  and  cavalry....... 

VII  42,  IX     45 


INDEX.  XXUl 

« 
Buronu  of  Conscription  ordered  to  organize  reserve  forces, 

and  how VII  65 

OflScere  of  reserve  forces  ;  how  commissioned VIII  44 

Those  between  eighteen  and  fort3'-five  j'ears  not  to  hold  of- 
fice in  reserve  forces I  67 

Staff  officers  of  reserve  forces  ;  from  what  class  appointed.  .II  57 

Detailed  men  will  serve  with  reserved  forces Ill  57 

Reserve  forces  to  be  under  their  own  general  officers XI  57 

Reserve  troops,  when  not  in  active  service;  under  whoso 

command" XII  57 

Furloughs,  how  granted  to  reserve  troops XIV  57 

M. 
MARYLAND  LINE. 

To  facilitate  organization  of,  camps  established II     38 

All  Maryland  companies,  etc.,  will  bo  ordered  to  report  at 

said  camps Ill     38 

Native  or  adopted   citizens    of  Maryland  to  be   transferred 

to IV,  VI     38 

MEDICAL  OFFICERS. 

lu  charge  of  hospitals,  upon  death  of  soldier  to  furnish  Sec- 
ond Auditor  statement  shojving  last  payment II       I 

On  examining  boards  will  not  be  assigned  to  own  congres- 
sional district • IX     26 

On  examining  boards  will  report  to  commandant  of  con- 
scripts for  state X     2fi 

Employed  physicians  will  receive  pay,  etc., 'of  assistant  sur- 
geons  IX     2G 

MILITARY  COURTS. 

Additional,  orpani/.ed  in  North  Alabama.     Act  of  February 

13,  1864.      [10] I    .29 

Additional,  established  at  the  discretion  of  the  President. 

{Tdem.)     [11] I     29 

Jurisdiction  of,  extended.     Act  of  February  17,  1864.    [12]  I     29 

.SVc.  2.  Members  of,  ceasing  to   exist,  to  be  assigned   to 
other  courts. 

Sec.  3.  May  try  officers  below  grade  of  lieutenant-general. 
May  compel  attendance  of  citizen  witness.     Act  of  Febru- 
ary 17,  1864      [1,3] I     29 

Field-<  fficers  may   be  detailed  to  sit  on,  under  certain  cir- 

cum-stanccs.     Act  of  February  fi,  1864.      [14] I     29 

May  try  cases  of  drnnhenncss  in  army.     Act  of  February 

17,1804.     [1.^] I     29 


XXIV  INDEX. 

Officers  appearing  before,  in  behalf  of  prisoner,  must  re- 
ceive no  compensation VI     45 

Commander  of  army  may  empower  subordinate  commander 
to  refer  charges  and  confirm  records  of.  Act  of  June  14, 
1864.     [10] ; I     53 

Any  person  acquitted  by,  to  be  immediately  discharg- 
ed.    {Idem.). I     53 

Clerks  and  marshals  of,  to  be  detailed  by  the  Secretary  of 

War  from  disabled  officers,  etc.  Act  of  June  14,  1864.  [22]  I     63 

Judge  of,  in  North  Alabama,  not  required  to 'give  ten  days' 

notice  of  holding  same.     Act  of  June  14,  1864.     [25]. ...   I     53 

To  select  and  report  for  assignment  to  duty  as  clerks  and 
marshals  those  disabled I     55 

MILITARY  STOREKEEPERS. 

Six  to  be. appointed.     Act  of  February   17,  1864.     [7] I  29 

Additional  appointed.     Act  of  June  4,  1864.       [4] I  53 

To  give  bonds.      {Idem.)     [4,  sec.  2] I  53 

MILITARY  TRIALS. 

Case  of  Second    Lieutenant   Harry    Clay,   First   Kentucky 

Mounted  Rifles I     12 

Case  of  Lieutenant  Geo.  E.  Route,  Company  A,  1st  battalion 

Kentucky  Mounted  Rifles II     12 

Case  of  Peyton  S.  Stout,  Company  E,  2d  Kentucky  Mount- 
ed Rifles in     12 

Case  of  Biigadier-Qeneral  J.  B.  Robertson,  P.  A.  C.  S 24 

Case  of  Major-General  L.  McLaws,  P.  A.  C.  S 46 

N. 
NITRE  AND  MINING  BUREAU. 

Applications  from  officers  of  corps  of,  for  field  service  can  not 

bo  considered ; I     18 

Workmen  employed  by  oflicer  of  corps  may  be  organized  for 

local  defence I     18 

Number  of  workmen  for  service,  submitted  by  chief  of, 
approved  and  communicated  for  guidance  of  Conscription 
bureau , II     jg 

Military  commanders  to  extend  to  aervioo  protection  and 

encouiagemenl Ill     18 

Employees  of,  not  to  be  interfered  with  by  enrolling  or  re- 
cruiting officers,  without  consent  of  officer  in  charge. . .  .IV     18 

Officers  of.     Act  of  June  9,  1864.     [6] I     53 

Chemists  and  professional  assistantF  of.    (Idem,  section  2.)  I         51 


INDEX.  XXV 

0. 

OFFICERS. 

Effects  of  dwcasd,  where  no  legal  reprcaer.tative  present, 
to  bo  turned  over  under  provisions  of  General  Order.8,  No. 
67,.  18R3,  to  post  or  regimental  qunrtermaster I       1 

Found  chargeable  by  board  of  survey  for  loss  or  damage  to 
ordoanco  stores,  to  have  amount  deducted  from  pay 
account H       f, 

Not  to  interfere  with  supplies  of  provisions  in  transitu  to 

arsenals,  etc.,  for  use  of  operatives II     16 

Re-elected,    not    allowed    transportation"   or    commutation 

thereof VI     23 

Without  command,  or  who  are  incompetent,  or  absent,  may 
be  discharged.  (See  General  Orders,  No.  25,  paragraph 
VIII,  current  series.) ' VIII     22 

Absent  from    their   commands,  or    without   assignment   to 

duty,  to  report  address  to  AVar  department IX     22 

Sick  in  hospital,  rations  will  be  drawn  for  or  value  commut- 
ed, except  in  trans-Mississippi  department.  Act  of  Con- 
gress, February  1,  1864 VI     25 

In  trans-Mississippi  department,  belonging  to  commands 
east  of  river  to  return  to  same,  or,  haying  no  command, 
to  be  retired •• '. VIII     26 

Mc<lical,  on  ex.^mining  boards,  will  not  be  assigned  to  own 

congressional  ilistiict IX     29 

Medical,  on  examining  boardi",  will  report  to  commandant 

of  conscripts  of  states X     26 

Entitled  to  rations.     Act  of  Congress Ill  and  IV     28 

Not  in  the  field  may  purchase  a  ration V     28 

May  purchase  clothing  of  quartermaster.  Act  of  Con- 
gress  Ill    28 

Retired,  not  entitled  to  draw  or  purchase  rations VI     28 

Ensign  allowed  to  each  regiment  of  infantry.  Act  of  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1S64.     [4] I     2» 

To  bo  promoted  for  distinguished  skill  or  valor.      Act  of 

February  17,  1864.    [5] I     29 

In  engineer  corps,  number  increased.     Act  of  February  17, 

1864.    [7]  [8] I     29 

Pay  of,  in  engineer  corps.     Sections.    [8] I     29 

Of  engineer  corps  and  engineer  troops  may  bo  transferred. 

Act  of  February  17,  1 864,  section  12.    [8] I     29 

Disabled  by  wounds  or  disease,  to  bo  placed  in  "invalid 
corps."     Act  of  February  17,  1864 I     M 


XXvi  INDEX. 

Wishing  to  be  placed  in  "invalid  corps,"  to  apply  for  au- 
thority to  appear  before  medical  examining  board .II     S4 

Not  to  be  retired,  except  by  War  department  .  .IV  34  and  IX     42 
Recommended  under  the  act  of  October  13,  1862,  to' be  re- 
tired, may,  upon  application,  appear  before  medical  ex- 
amining board • VI     .34 

In.  "invalid  corps"  will  present  themselves  for  rc-exami- 

mtion  every  sis  mouths VII    34 

Failing  to  appear,  will  be  repoiU.'.. . . ; VIII     34 

I;,  '-luvaud  corps,"  noi  o. '.'^led  to  commutation  of  quar- 
ters, etc.,  and  how  paid IX     ;i4 

Certificate  for  retired  invalid XV     Ai 

On  inspection  duty  allowed  travelling  expenses I     35 

Not  granted  leave  of  absence,  except  by  general  command- 
ing  HI    36 

Will  not  be  assigned  to  duty  by  commanding  generals  be- 
yond limits  of  department IV     85 

Of  captured  organizations,  until  exchanged,  will  be  assigned 
to  duty.  (Revoked,  see  General  Orders,  No.  42,  para- 
graph VI.) V     35 

Of  captured  organizations,  who  have  themselves  escaped 

capture,  will  be  assigned  to  duty ■ VI     42 

In    "  invalid  corps,"  will  notify   War  department  of  their 

station  or  post-oflSco  monthly II  and  V     37 

To   whom   detached  soldiers   report,  to   take  possession  of 

descriptive  list,  etc XII     43 

Will  be  held  accountable  for  straggling  of  their  troops. ...  I  45 
Will  not  be  allowed  to  purchase  or  have  impressed  horses.  .V  46 
Appearing  in  behalf  of  a  prisoner  before  a  court-martiul  or 

military  court,  must  receive  no  compensation  therefor. .  .VI     45 

Of  reserve  forces ;  how  eummissioued VIII     45 

With  troops  not  to  appropriate  the  titho ;  if  they  need  sup- 
plies, how  to  get  them IV     48 

Of  Quartermaster's  department  to  return  grain  sacks  . . .  .VII    48 
Commanding  posts,  charged  with  enforcing  law  against  cm- 
ploying  able-bodied  men  in  departments Vltl     48 

Ensign  allowed  each  battalion  of  iufantrj.    Act  of  May 

31,1864.     [2] I     63 

Transportation  furnished  to,  while  travelling  under  orders. 

Act  of  June  4,  1864.     [3].., I     63 

Of  scouts  in  Valley  of  Mississippi.    Act  of  Juno  16,  1864. 

[9] I     63 

L."     Of  scouts  to  raise  four  companies.     (Idem,  section  2.) I    63 


INDEX.  XXVll 

Supernumerary,  organized  into  companies,  biittalions,  etc. 

Act  of  Juno  14,  1861.     [11] I     .53 

Supernumerary,  allowed  to  join  any  organization.     {Tdetn,         6.3 
section  2.) I     5.3 

Sball  not  bo  appointed  or  elected  to  fill  vacancies  in  com- 
panies unless  there  is  certain    number  on  roll.      {Idem,         63 
sections.) ».. I     63 

Sick  and  wounded  allo^ved  transportation  and  hospital  ac- 
commodation.    Act  of  June  10,  1864.     [18] I     63 

Will  report  those  in  cavalry  service  who  misbehave II     66 

Dropped  from  rolls  of  army 4P 

List  of  resigned 61 

Entitled  to  rations.     Act  of  June  7,  1864 I     62 

ORDNANCE. 

Depot  at  Savannah XI     (2 

ORDNANCE  OFFICERS. 

To  notify  company  commander  of  amount  found  chargeable 

against  privates,  for  loss  or  damage  to  ordnance  stores. .  .II       6 

In  case  of  officers,  will  notify  brigade  or  chief  quartermas- 
ter of  diitrict  to  have  amount  stopped  at  next  payment.  .II       6 

Will  transmit  duplicates  of  such  notifications  in  case  of  offi- 
cers and  privates  to  chief  of  bureau,  to  be  by  him  trans- 
mitted to  Second  Auditnr II       (J 

Will  furnish  brigade  inspector  with  statement  of  stoppages, 

assessed  by  board  of  survey,  against  officers  and  men  ..III       6 
[21] I     53 

Fifty  additional  to  bo  appointed.     Act  of  June  10,    1864. 
ORDNANCE  SERGEANTS. 

Of  regiments  to  remain  habitually  with  their  regiments,  and 

to  keep  informed  as  to  position  of  ordnance  train V       6 

ORDNANCE  STORES. 

When  lost  or  dcstroj'cd,  district  or  brigfide  commander  to 
appoint  "board  of  survey  "  to  assess  value  of  or  d.Tmago 
to T       6 

Lost  or  destroyed  in  artillery,  "  boards  "  to  be  appointed  by 
olBcer  in  charge  of  artillery  of  a^corps  or  of  a  depart- 
ment  IV       6 

ORGANIZATIONS. 

Recruits  for  new,  which  have  not  now  seventy-two  men,  to 
bo  turned  over  to  Conscription  bureau;  maybe  allowed 

to  select  company  under  certain  restrictions II       6 

Persons   aulhorited,  slnco  December   1,  1863,  to  enlist   for 


XXVIU  INDEX. 

new,  to  report  to  commanding  general  of  department  for 
further  authority;  if  not  granted,  their  power  to  expire 
at  end  of  thirty  days Ill     16 

Above  orders  concerning,  not  to  have  effect  in  trans-Missis- 
sippi department IV     18 

Composed  of  supernumerary  ofScers  provided  for.     Act  of 

Juno  14,  1864.     [11] I     53 

OVERSEERS. 

Application  for  exemption  of ;  how  mado IV     26 

P. 
PARTISAN  RANGERS. 

To  be  continued  in  present  organizations,  but  as  regular 

cavalry.     Act  of  February  17,  1864.     [19] I     29 

To  be  organized  into  battalions  and  regiments.  (Idem,  sec- 
tion 2.) I     29 

Companies  of,  within  enemy's  line,  exempted  from  operations 

of  act.    (/rfem,  section  3.) I     29 

PAYMENTS. 

Amount  of  made  to  soldiers  on  descriptive  lists,  to  be  en- 
dorsed thereon  by  quartermaster  (amended  by  paragraph 
V,  General  Order?,  No.  3J) VI  13  and  VI     36 

Certificate  that  descriptive  list  was  correct,  to  be  tiled,  with 

soldier's  receipt  . .< VI     35 

To  detached  men,  bi-monthly  in  the  field  and  monthly  at 

posts XII     42 

To  soldiers  leaving  on  furlough  ;  how  made. .'. XIII     42 

To  soldiers  in  hospitals  ;  how  made XIV     42 

To  officers  performing  staff  duty;  bow  made.  Act  of  Feb- 
ruary 11,  1864 XVI     42 

Increase  of,  to  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates.     Act 

of  June  9,  1864.     [5] I     o3 

To  general  oflicers,  graduated.     Act  of  Juno  10,  1S64.     [20]  I     53 

To  soldiers,  etc.,  detached.     Act  of  June  9,  1864.     [8].. ,,.    I     53 

How  made  to  olficers,  clerks',  privates,  and  employees  in 

conscription  service V  to  VIIJ     57 

POST  COMMANDERS.- 

Charged  with  enforcement  of  act  of  February  17,  1864,  sec- 
tion 9  (General  Orders,  No.  2(5,  Confederate  States). . .  .VIII     48 

Will   make  monthly  returns   directly  to   War  department; 

what  lA  required  tlieroiii , IX     48 

PRISONERS. 

Notice  No   8  of  duly  exchanged 14 


INDEX.  XXIX 

Notice  No.  10  of  duly  exchanged 60 

Notice  No.  11  of  duly  exchanged 58 

Of  war,  sustenance  of;  how  provided.    Act  of  February  17, 

1864.     [.3] 1     29 

Captured  south  of  Richmond  to  bo  sent  to  Andersonville, 

Georgia -. Ill     45 

PROCLAMATIONS. 

His  Excellency  the  President,  to  Soldiers  of  the  Armies  of 

the  Confederate  States 10 

PROMOTION. 

For  skill  and  valor  of  officers  and  enlisted  men  ,•  how  mjide. 

Act  of  February  17,  1864.     [5] I     29 

In  general  staff;  how  made.  Act  of  June  14,  1864,  (sec- 
tion 1.     [23] I     63 

PROVISIONS. 

In  transitu  under  orders  commanding  officers  for  use  of 
operatives  in  arsenals,  etc.,  not  to  be  interfered  with  by  of- 
ficers pf  the  departments. . .« II  15  and  IX     26 

Q. 
(QUARTERMASTERS 

And  other  agents  for  collection  tax  iu  kind,  may  demand 
and  receive  for  bacon  an  equivalent  in  salt  pork;  relative 
value,  how  determined II       4 

Brigade  and  chief  to  stop  from  officers'  pay  account  amounts 
reported  by  ordnance  officers  found  chargeable  for  loss  or 
damage  to  ordnance  stores II       6 

To  issue  clothing  to  soldiers  on  requisition  of  immediate 
commanding  officer  (amended  by  paragraph  I,  Qeneral 
Orders,  No.  28) V     13 

To  endorse  amounts  paid  to  soldier?  on  deocriptive  lists,  and 
return  them  for  delivery  to  company  commanders  (amend- 
ed by  paragraph  VI,  General  Orders,  No.  35) VI     13 

And  agents  of  department  not  to  interfere  with  hidet  or 
leather  purchased  or  contracted  for  by  Ordnance  depart- 
ment  II     17 

Probibit'-d  paying  suldicrs  except  as  provided  by Ill     22 

Of  command  to  which  soldier  befongs  will  pay  commuta- 
tion in  lieu  of  furlough VI     22 

Will  issue  clothing  directly  to  soldiers I     28 

Will  not  sell  (o  officers  clothing  suitable  for  privates  until 

privates  arc  aupplicd.     Act  of  Congress Ill  and  VII     28 

c* 


XXX  INDEX. 

Will  receive  instructions  in  relation  to  tho  foregoing  from  • 

Quartermaster- General -VII     28 

To  note  payments  on  descriptive  lists,  to  be  delivered  to 
company  commander XV     42 

Receipts  of  bonded  ,•  are  valid  for  tith^  tax I    48 

Will  give  special  attention  to  removal  of  tax  in  kind Ill     48 

Sacks   will  be  returned  to  the  quartermaster   from  whom 

grain  is  received VII     48 

Number  and  rank  of,  increased.   Act  of  June  14, 18S4.    [14].   I     53 

One  to  each  regiment  or  battalion,  left  to  discretion  of  Pres- 
ident.    (Idem,  sec.  2.) I     63 

Those  who  may  be  dispensed  with  to  be  dropped  from  tho 

rolls.     (Idem,  sec.  3.) I     53 

One  to  be  appointed  for  each  stale  and  congressional  dis- 
trict.    (Idem,  sec.  4:.) I     53 

Attached  to  conscript  service,  will  attend  to  disbursements 

in  said  service,  and  how V,  VII,     57 

R. 

RAILROADS. 

For  transportation  of  troops,  supplies,  etc.,  under  control  of 

Quartermaster's  department Ill     15 

Orders  of  commanding  generals  and  other  officers  relating 
to  transportation  by.  to  be  furnished  to  Quartermaster- 
General,  that  arrangements  may  be  made  in  time  to  pre- 
vent accidents,  delays,  etc Ill     15 

RATIONS. 

Certain  paragraphs  Army  Regulations  concerning  commu- 
tation of,  revoked. I       8 

Of  enlisted  men,  detailed  in  Richmond  by  reason  of  dis- 
ability, commuted  at  $1  25  per  diem II       8 

Of  enlisted  men,  on  detached  or  detailed  service,  or  in  a 
city,  of  non-commissioned  and  regimental  staff,  with  no 
opportunity  of  messing,  soldiers  on  furlough,  etc.,  etc., 
commuted  at  $1  per  diem,  from  January  1,  1864 Ill       8 

Of  enlisted  men  permanently  disabled,  or  who  hold  certifi- 
cate of  medical  examining  board,  and  who  have  not 
been  discharged,  commuted  at  $1  25  per  diom IV       8 

Accounts  for  commutation  of,  will  state,  etc V       8 

Of  paroled  unexchanged  prisoners  on  furlough  who  have 
just  been  received,  commuted  at  $1  per  diem  (amended  by 
paragraph  VI,  General  Orders,  No.  17) VI       8 

Issues  of,  to  hospitals  made  on  returns  by  medical  officers, 


INDEX.  XXXI 

for  such  provisions  only  as  arc  actually  required  for  sick 

and  wounded VII       8 

Commuted  value  of,  for  sick  and  wounded,  $1  25 VII       8 

For  hospitals  same  as  to  soldier  in  field VII       8 

Not  allowed  to  hospital  attendants,  but  will  be  commuted  at 
$1  25.      CRevoked    by   paragraph    IV,   General    Orders, 

No.  25.) VIII       8 

Allowed  to  chaplains,  or  commuted  value  of VII     22 

Allowed  to  officers  in  hospital  (act  of   Congress,  Feb.  13, 

1864),  except  in  trans-Mississippi  department,  .sec.  1,  I,  VI     25 
Hospital,  commuted  at  $2  50,  except  in  trans-Mississippi  de- 
partment (amended,  see  I,  5.3) V     26 

Allowed  to  attendants  in  fiold  hospitals,  and  female  attend- 
ants in  general  hospitals ;  rations  of  male  attendants  in 

general  hospitals  to  be  commuted IV     25 

Issued  to  officers  in  field  (amended,  see  I,  63) IV     28 

One  a  day  may  be  purchased  by  officer  not  in  the  field. . . .  V     28 
Of    tobacco,    for    enlisted    men.       Act    of    February    17, 

1864....    n X45,  XVII    42 

Issued  to  officers.     Act  of  Juno  7,  1864 I     52 

Hospital,  at  what  commuted.    Act  of  June  14,  1864.    [25]..   I     53 

RECORDS. 

Preservation    of,  concerning  its  troops   by  state.      Act  of 

February  ir,  1864.    [2] I     29 

RECRUITS. 

Enlisted,  by  authority,  for  new  companies,  which  have  not, 
at  this  time,  seventy-two  men,  to  bo  turned  over  to  Bureau 

of  Conscription II     16 

Enlisted  as  above,  may  be  allowed  to  select  any  infantry 
compnny,  under  provisions  paragraph  II,  General  Orders, 

No.  7,  of  1864 II     16 

Above  orders  concerning,  not  to  have  eflfect  in  trans-Mis- 

sissipyii IV     16 

Authority  to  raise  troops  revoked X     42 

RELIGIOUS  DENOMINATIONS. 

Exemptions  granted  to  certain.     Act  of  June  7,  1864.  [13].   I     53 
Exemptions  to,  revoked  when  obtained   by  fraud.     {Idem, 

section  2.) I     53 

RESERVE  FORCES. 

Sec  "  Loral  Defence." 
REVOCATIONS. 

Of  General  Orders,  No.  137,  of  1863,  extending  authority  of 


XXXll  INDBX. 

commandants  of  conscripts  to  make  details  for  certain  pur- 
poses  I     15 

Of  all  authorities  given  prior  to  December,  1863,  to  raise 
troops  from  men  not  within  lines  of  enemy,  or  to  recruit 

for  any  particular  command  in  the  field I     16 

Act  of  May  21,  1861,  relating  to  sustenance  of  prisoners  of 

war,  repealed  by  act  of  Feb.  17,  1864.     [3] I     29 

Act  of  April  21,  1862.  organizing  partisan  rangers,  repeal- 
ed by  act  of  February  17,  1864.     [19] I     29 

Paragraph  170  General  Ilegulations,  by Ill     36 

Parapraphs  1,129,  1,130,  1,131,  1,132,  Army  Regulations,  by. I       8 
Paragraph  VII,  General  Orders,  No.  125  (1863),  by X     57 


SCOUTS. 

To  facilitate  communication  with  trans-Mississippi  depart- 
ment.    Act  of  June  10,  1864.     [9]   I     53 

President  to  appoint  olTicers  and  detail  men  for.     [/dent.]... I     63 

SLAVES. 

Modification  •f  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  138,  1863, 

concerning  impre.ssuient  of 20 

Rate  of  compensation  for,   impressed  under  act  March  26, 

1S63;  how  established 20 

To  be  employed  in  certain  capacities  in  the  army.     Act  of 

February  17,  1864 I     32 

Secretary  of  War  authorized  to  employ  or  impress  a.s  many 
as  may  be  necessary,  not  exceeding  twenty  thousand. 
(Idem.) I     32 

Owner  to  be  compensated  for  loss  of.     {Idem.) I     32 

Instructions  for  impressment  of IV     32 

Impressment  of,  will  be  by  special  orders  from  War  de- 
partment   V     32 

See  "  Free  Neyroea." 

SOLDIERS. 

From  same  state  to  be  placed  together.     Act  of  February 

17,  1864 II,  in     27 

Disabled  by  wounds  or  disease,  to  be    placed  in  "invalid 

corps."     Act  of  February  17,  1864 1     .34 

Wishing  to  be  placed  in  "invalid  corps,"  to  apply  for  au- 
thority to  appear  before  medical  examining  board II     34 

Certificate  retiring,  will  indicate  what  duty  he  can  best  per- 
form  V     34 


INDEX.  XXXUl 

In  "  invalid  corps,"  vfill  present  themselres  for  ro>examina- 

tion  every  six  months VII     34 

Failing  to  appear,  will  be  reported VIII     34 

In  "  invalid  corps,"  will  bo  furnished  with  descriptive  lists, 

and  how  paid X     34 

In  "  invalid  corps  ;"  how  clothed XII     34 

In  "  invalid  corps;"  how  fed.. XIII     34 

Returned  to  command  from  "invalid  corps,"  to  deliver  up 

descriptive  list XIV     34 

Certificates  for  retired XV     34 

Of  captured  organizations,  until  exchanged,  will  be  assigned 
to  duty.     (Revoked,  General  Orders,  No.  42,  paragraph 

VI) V     36 

Of  captured  organizations,  who  have   themselves   escaped 

capture,  will  be  assigned  to  duty .VI     42 

Over  fortj'-five  and  under  eighteen  will  be  discharged  on  ex- 
piration of  enlistment VIII     42 

Detached,  to  be  paid  bi-monthly  in  the  field,  and  monthly 

at  posts XII     42 

Leaving  ou  furlough  ;  how  paid XIII     42 

Returning  to  command  from  hospitals,  etc.,  will  deliver  up 

descriptive  lists XV     42 

Regulations  to  prevent  straggling  of I     46 

Compensation  of,  increased.  Act  of  June  9,  1864.  [5]....  I  53 
Detailed,  allowed  regular  p.ay.  Act  of  June  9,  IS64.  [8]. .  I  53 
Detailed,  allowed  extra  pay  of  two  dollars  a  d.Ty,  etc.  {Idem, 

section  2.) ,". I     53 

Detailed  to  government  contractors  to  be  compensated  by 

wages.    {Idem,  section  3.) I     63 

STAFF  OFFICERS. 

Number  and  grade  of,  allowed  to  the  several  commands  in 

the  field I  44 

Number  and  grade  of   will   be  assimilated   to   number   of 

troops  in  department Ill  44 

All  assignments  of,  will  be  made  by  War  department VI  44 

Olficers  of  line  will  not  be  assigned  as VII  44 

Couriers  and  guides  for  transmission  of  orders  on  battle- 
field maj' be  employed,  and  how VH  44 

Vacancies  in  ;  how  filled VIII  44 

Promotion."!  among  ;  bow  made X  44 

Organized.     Act  of  Juno  14,  1881.     [23] I  53 

Promotions  in  ;  how  m.ide.    Act  of  Juno  14,  1864.    Section  1,  I  53 

President  to  assign  for  duty,     (/c/em,  Bootion  2.) I  53 


XXXIV  INDEX. 

Allowed   to   general  commanding   army   in   field.      {Idem, 

sections.) I     53 

Allowed  to  lieutenant-general  commanding  corps  d'armee. 

(Idem,  section  4.) I     &3 

Allowed   to   major-general    commanding   division.     {Idem, 

sections.) I     63 

Allowed  to  brigadier-general  commanding  brigade.     {Idem, 

section  6.) I     63 

President  authorized  to  ipcrease  or  reduce.  {Idem,  sec- 
tion 7.) I     53 

Appointments  of ;  from  whom  made,     (/ciem,  section  8.). .. .   I     53^ 

For  the  reserve  forces;  how  appointed. II     57 

STOREKEEPERS. 

Six  military  to  bo  appointed.     Act  of  Feb.  17,  1864.     [7]. .   I     29 
Additional,  appointed.     Act  of  Juno  4,  1864.     [4] I     63 

STRAGGLING. 

Regulations  to  prevent I     45 

SUBSTITUTES. 

Act  to  prevent  enlistment  or  enrolment  of I      3 

Persons   liable   to   military    service    will   not  hereafter   be 

allowed  to  furnish.     Act  of  Congress,  Dec.  28,  1863 I       3 

Act  to  put  end  to  exemption  for  those  who  have  furnished. .   I       3 

T. 

TAX  IN  KIND. 

On  bacon,  may  be  commuted  by  collection  of  salt  pork  as 

an  equivalent.     Act  December  23,  1863 I       4 

Receipts  of  bonded  quartermasters  and  commissaries,  and 

agents  of  tax  service,  are  alone  valid  for I     48 

Receipts  for,  will  bo  given  monthly  to  district  quarter- 
master   II     48 

Must  be  removed  from  interior  depots  to  railroad  stations, 

etc Ill     48 

Must  not  be  appropriated  by  officers  with  troops IV     48 

TOBACCO. 

Ration  of.     Act  of  February  17,  1864'. XVII  42,  X     45 

TRANSPORTATION. 

Of   troops,    munitions,    etc.,  by  railroad   under   control  of 

Quartermaster's   department Ill     16 

Order  of  commanding  generals  relating  tg,  by  railroad,  to 

bo  furnished  to  Quartermaster-General. Ill     16 


INDEX.  XXXV 

Inspector-general  of  field,  is  charged  with  impressing  and 

purchasing VII     35 

To  bo  furnished  by  commanders  to  members  of  Copgross  in 

certain  cases.     Act  of  Juno  8,  1864 II     62 

Furnished  oflicevs  when  travelling   under  orders.     Act  of 

Jnne  4,  1864.     [.3] I     53 

Allowed  sick  and  wounded  oflBccrs.     Resolution,  Juno  10, 

1864.     [18^ .1     53 

TROOPS. 

Fi^m  same  stat  i  to  be  placed  together.     Act  of  Congress, 

February  17,  1864 II,  III     27 

To  aid  "'ate  in  communicating  with,  an  '  perfecting  records 

of.     Act  of  February  16.  1 ':.'*.     [2] I     29' 

uxIl::--!'"  1"^' :»  oi  iufantry  and  cavalry VII     42 

Authority  to  raise,  revoked X     42 

V. 
VOLUNTEERS. 

Persons  not  liable  to  conscription,  enrolled  as,  to  receive 

transportation  to  company IV     22 

Soldiers  furnishing  recruit  entitled  to  transportation V     23 

W. 

WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

Auxiliary   bureau    of,    west   of   Mississippi   river.     Act   of 

February  17,  1864.     [16] .....I     29 

Staff  officers  and  clerks  for  duty  in,  auxiliary  bureau;  how 

appointed  and  assigned,     (/t/cni,  section  2.) I     29 

WITNESSES. 

Expenses   of  citizen    to,    be   paid.      Act   of   February    17, 

1864.    [13] I     29 

Citizen,  compelled  to  obey  summons  of    military  court  or 

court-martial.     ( Idem,  section  2.) I     29 


OENKRAL  0RD£RS,1  Adjutani  and  l.vspr.cTOR-OENERAL'8  OFrioE 

No.  1.  J  Richmond,  January  4, 1S61. 


I.. If,  immediately  after  the  death  of  au  officer,  there  be  uo  family 
connection  or  legal  representative  present,  to  whom  the  ofiBcor,  charged 
by  the  94th  Article  of  War  with  securing  his  effects,  may  deliver  them, 
he  will  turn  them  over,  under  the  provisions  of  paragraph  III,  General 
Orders,  No.  67  (1863),  to  the  quartermaster  of  the  regiment  or  post,  as 
tho  circumstances  may  indicate  to  bo  proper. 

II.  .Surgeons  or  assistant  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals  will,  upon 
the  death  of  a  soldier  in  hospital,  furnish  the  Second  Auditor  of  the 
Treasury  a  statement  from  their  rolls,  showing  the  last  payment  preced- 
ing his  death  made  to  such  soldier. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERt;,"|  '  Adjutant  and  Inspectok-Qeseral's  Office. 

No.  2.  J  RiORMOND,  January  5, 1864. 

For  the  information  of  all  concerned,  and  to  correct  prevalent  misap- 
prehension, it  is  announced  that  there  exists  no  mandatory  provision  of 
law  securing  to  enrolled  conscripts  the  right  to  choose  in  what  company 
or  regiment  they  will  serve.  They  can  not  bo  assigned  to  companies 
from  other  states,  and,  in  general,  their  wishes  are  to  be  consulted  as  to 
the  choice  of  companies,  where  no  considerations  for  the  good  of  the 
.»ervice  intervene  to  prevent  compliance.  Assignments  ohce  made  by 
commandants  of  conscripts,  in  good  faith,  in  the  exercise  of  their  dis- 
cretion, will  not  be  considered  as  fit  subjects  for  complaints. 
By  order- 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  l  Apjutawt  and  Ii»8PECT0R-Oenkrai.'8  Office. 

Jfo.  3.  )  RiCHMONi),  January  9, 1864. 

I.  .The  following  acts  of  CongresB  and  regulations  are  published  for 
the  information  of  all  persono  con<-»rn«d  therein  : 


AN  ACT  TO  PREVENT  THE  ENLISTMENT  OR  ENROLMENT  OF  SUBSTITUTES  IN 
THE  IIILITARY  SERVICE  OF    THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate.  Stales  of  America  do  enact,  That  no 
person  liable  to  military  service  .=ball,  hereafter,  be  permitted  or  allowed 
to  furnish  a  substitute  for  such  service,  nor  shall  apy  substitute  be  re- 
ceived, enlisted,  or  enrolled  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate 
States.     [Approved  December  28,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  Pl"T  AN  EN1>  TO  THE  EXEMPTION   FROM  MILITARY   SERVICE    OF 
THOSE  WHO  HAVE  HERETOFORE  FURNISHED  SUBSTITUTES. 

Whereas,  in  the  present  circumstances  of  the  country,  it  requires  the 
aid  of  all  who  are  able  to  bear  arms  : 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  no 
person  shall  be  exempted  from  military  service  by  reason  of  his  having 
furnished  a  substitute ;  but  this  act  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  aflfect 
persons  who,  though  not  liable  to  render  military  service,  have,  never- 
theless, furnished  substitutes.     [Approved  January  5,  1864.] 

II.. Persons  rendered  liable  to  military  service  by  operation  of  the 
preceding  acts  are  placed  on  the  same  footing  with  all  others  hitherto 
held  liable  by  acts  of  Congress. 

III.. Persons  herein  rendered  liable  to  military  service  arc  required 
to  report  as  volunteers  or  conscripts,  without  delay,  to  the  enrolling  offi- 
cers; and  all  who  delay  beyond  the  first  day  of  February,  1864,  will  be. 
considered  as  having  renounced  the  privilege  of  volunteering,  and  held 
for  assignment  according  to  law. 

*  IV.  .Enrolling  officers  will  proceed,  as  rapidly  as  practicable,  in  the 
enrolment  of  persons  herein  made  liable  to  military  service.  Previous 
to  enrolment  as  conscripts,  all  such  persons  will  be  allowed  to  volunteer 
in  companies  in  service  on  the  16th  of  April,  lSfi2 ;  prot'idcd,  the  company 
chosen  does  not,  at  the  time  of  volunteering,  reach  the  maximum  num- 
ber allowed;  and,  upon  such  company  being  selected,  the  volunteer 
will  receive  from  the  enrolling  officer  a  certificate  to  the  effect  that  ho 
has  so  volunteered;  and  no  volunteer  will  be  received  into  any  com- 
pany except  on  such  certificate.  Persons  who  fail  to  make  their  selec- 
tion at  the  time  of  enrolment  will  be  assigned  according  to  existing 
regulations. 

V.  .Persons  who  report  to  the  enrolling  officers  will  be  enrolled,  and 


*  Revoked  by  Q.  O.  No.  7,  i>aragrai)h  II,  c.  s. 


may  bo  allowed  a  furlough  of  ten  days  before  reporting  to  the  camp  of 
instruction.    • 

VI.  .AH  persons,  whether  volunteers  or  conscripts  under  this  order, 
will  pass  througli  the  eamp  of  instruction  of  the  state  to  which  they  be- 
long, and  be"  forwarded  thence  to  the  companies  which  are  selected,  or 
to  which  thoy  maj'  be  assigned. 

VII.. The  Bureau  of  Conscription  is  charged  with  adopting  proper 
regulations  for  the  enforcement  of  this  order. 

VIII.  .All  exemptions  heretofore  granted  are  subject  to  revision,  un- 
der instructions  from  the  Bureau  of  Conscription ;  and  if  found  to  be 
improper,  or  unauthorized  by  law,  will  be  revoked. 
By  order. 
•       .  S.  COOPER, 

A'lJHtnnt  and  Inxpecliir- General. 


GENERAL  OllDEKS,  )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-G^nbral's  Ofkice, 

No.  4.  )  lUcHMOND,  January  11,  1864. 

I.    AN    ACT    AUTHOUIZING    THE     TAX     IN     KIND    ON    BACON    TO    BB    COM- 
MUTED   BY    GOLLECTION    OF    SALT    PORK    AS    AN    EQUIVALENT. 

The  Congrcas  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
assistant  quartermasters,  and  other  agents  engaged  in -the  collection  of 
the  tax  in  kind,  may  be  autliorized,  under  orders  and  regulations  made 
by  the  Secretary  of  AVar,  to  demand  and  receive,  in  commutation  for 
the  tax  in  kinil  on  bacon,  an  equivalent  therefor  in  salt  pork.^  [Ap- 
proved December  28,  1863.] 

II.. The  foregoing  act  of  Congress  being  now  in  force,  the  ofliccrs 
mentioned  in  the  act  arc  hereby  authorized  to  demand  and  receive,  in 
commutation  for  the  tax  in  kind,  an  equivalent  in  salt  pork.  In  esti- 
mating ^vbat  shall  be  an  equivalent,  reference  shall  be  made,  as  far  as 
practicable,  to  the  schedule  rates  established  by  the  appraisers  appoint- 
ed under  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  of  Congress  relative  to  impress- 
ments. But  the  Quartermaster-General  may  direct  a  variation  from 
those  rates,  and  settle  other."!,  in  such  localities  as  a  variation  may  be 
deemed  advi.s.ablc  for  the  interest  of  the  public  service. 
By  order. 

S.   COOI'KR, 

Adjxfiiiil  ntid  Jvp'-'lnr-firiirriif. 


GENERAL  OKUEKS.)  Adjutam  and  Insp£cior-General's  Office, 

No.  5.  1  Richmond,  January  13, 1SG4. 

I.  .Tho  President  having  approved  the  folloTfing  joint  resolutions  of 
Congress,  directs  its  announcement  in  General  Orders,  expressive  of 
his  gratification  at  the  tribute  awarded  the  patriot  officers  and  soldiers 
to  whom  it  is  addressed. 

For  tho  military  laggard,  or  him  who,  in  the  pursuits  of  selfish  and 
inglorious  ease,  forgets  his  country's  need,  no  note  of  approbation  is 
sounded.  His  infamy  is  his  only  security  from  oblivion  !  But  tho 
heroic  devotion  of  those  who,  in  defence  of  liberty  and  honor,  have 
periled  all,  while  it  confers,  in  an  approving  conscience,  the  best  and 
highest  reward,  will  also  be  cherished  in  perpetual  remembrance  by  a 
grateful  nation.  Let  this  assurance  stimulate  the  armies  9i  the  Con- 
federacy everywhere  to  greater  exertion  and  more  resolute  endurance, 
till,  under  the  guidance  of  Heaven,  the  blessing?  of  peace  and  freedom 
shall  finally  crown  their  efforts.  Let  all  press  forward  in  the  road  to 
independence,  and  for  the  security  of  the  rights  sealed  to  us  in  the 
blood  of  the  fir.st  Revolution.  Honor  and  glorj' "await  out  success! 
Slavery  and  shame  will  attend  our  defeat ! 

II.. JOINT     nESOL0TIONS     OF     THANKS    TO     GENERAL     ROBERT    E.    LEE, 
AND    TO    THE    OFFICEKS    AND    SOLDIERS    UNDER    HIS    COMMAND. 

Whereas,  the  campaigns  of  the  brave  and  gallant  armies  covering 
the  capital  of  the  Confederate  States  during  the  two  successive  j'cars 
of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two  and  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
three,  under  the  leadership  and  command  of  Qcnoral  Robert  E.  Lee, 
have  been  crowned  with  glorious  results,  defeating"  greatly  superior 
forces  massed  by  the  enemy  for  ihe  conquest  of  these  states,  repelling 
the  invaders  with  immense  losses,  and  twice  trausferring  tho  battle 
fields  from  our  own  country  to  that  of  the  enemy ;  and  whereas,  the 
masterly  and  glorious  achievements,  rendering  for  over  memorable  the 
field  of  the  "  seven  days  of  great  battles,"  which  raised  the  Siege  of 
RichmonTl,  as  well  as  those  of  Cedar  Run,  Second  Manassas,  Harper's 
Ferry,  Boonsboro',  Sharpsburg,  Shepherdstown,  Fredericksburg,  Win- 
chester, Gettysburg,  and  Chancellorsville,  command  the  admiration 
and  gratitude  of  our  country  :  and  whereas,  these  and  other  illustrious 
services  rendered  by  this  able  commander  since  the  commencement  of 
our  war  of  independence,  have  especially  endeared  him  to  the  hearts  of 
his  countrymen,  and  have  imposed  on  Congress  the  grateful  duty  of 
giving  expression  to  their  feelings :     Therefore, 

Ecaolved,  bi/  the  Coitgrcss  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  That 
the  thanks  of  Congress  are  due  and  are  tendered  to  General  Robert  K. 


Lcc,  :nnl  to  thu  olliocrs  uuil  soldiers  of  tho  Coufcdcrate  armies  uniltr  his 
command,  for  tho  grcatf  and  signal  victories  they  have  won  over  tho 
vast  hosts  of  the  enemy,  and  for  the  inestimable  service  they  have  ren- 
dered in  defence  of  tho  liberty  an^  independence  of  our  country. 

liesnlvcd,  That  the'' President   be    requested  to   communicate   these 
resolutions  to  General   Robert  E.  Leo,  and  to  the  officers  and  soldiers 
herein  dcsii^natrd.     ("Approved  January  8,  ISfil.] 
]5y  order. 

s.  coopkh; 

Adjutant  and  fiifijx'ctor-GrticvaL 


QENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  6.  J  Richmond,  January  14, 1864. 

I.. Whenever  orduante  .'stores  are  lost  or  damaged  in  .any  brigade,  it 
will  be  the  duty  of  each  brigade  or  district  commander,  at  the  request 
of  his  ordnance  officer,  or  of  any  officer  accountable  for  ordnance  stores, 
to  appoint,  as  often  as  necessary,  a  board  of  survey,  to  consist  of  three 
officers,  to  assess  the  value  of  or  damage  to  such  stores., 

*II.  .The  decision  of  this  board,  with  the  approval  of  the  brigade  or 
district  commander,  will  be  linal;  and  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  brigade 
or  district  ordnance  officer  to  notify  the  company  commander  to  stop 
the  amount  on  the  muster-rolls  when  privates  are  found  chargeable  ; 
and  when  officers  arc  found  chargeable,  instead  of  reporting  to  the  Sec- 
retary of*  War,  as  required  by  paragraph  921,  (loneral  Regulations,  he 
will  notify  the  brigade  quartermaster  or  tho  chief  qunrterraaster  of  the 
district  to  have  the  amount  stopped  at  the  ne.xt  p.ayment.  Duplicate 
of  such  notification,  in  the  case  of  officers  and  privates,  to  be  sent  to 
the  Chief  of  Ordnance  at  Richmond,  to  be  by  him  transmitted  to  the 
Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury. 

III.  .The  brigade  or  district  ordnance  officer  will  furnish  the  brigade 
inspector;  <tr  other  officer  having  charge  of  that  duty,  with  a  statement 
of  all  stoppages  made  by  tho  board  of  survey  against  officers  and  men, 
and  the  inspector  will  sec  that  these  stoppagee  arc  actually  made. 

IV.  .The  same  inetructious  will  be  adhered  to  in  the  artillery,  where 
the  odieer  in  charge  of  the  artillery  of  a  corps  or  of  a  department  will- 
call  the  bo.'ird  of  survey. 

— — ' V ■ — ' —     '     — ' — 

*  Ainendcil  by  General  Order*,  No.  48,  paragraph  VI,  c.  ». 


{] 

v.. Ordnance  sergeants  of  regiments  will  remain  habitually  with 
their  regiments,  and  keep  themselves  constantly  informed  as  to  the 
positions  of  the  brigade  ordnance  train. 

VI.  .The  use  of  the  sword  bayonet  having  been  generally  disapprov- 
ed by  boards  of  officers  in  the  field,  to  whom  the  question  of  its  useful- 
ness was  referred,  its  manufacture  has  been  ordered  to  be  discontinued. 
The  triangular  bayonet  will  be  substituted. 

VII.. Hospital  funds  within  §5,000,  accrued  at  general  hospitals, 
may  be  transferred  to  other  general  hospitals,  on  the  order  of  the  Med- 
ical Director  or  Surjceon-General. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  Inspeotor-Gencual's  Office, 

No.  7.  J  RiCHMOMD,  Jawaar^  23,  18G4. 


I. .  Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  3,  current  series,  is  hereby  re- 
voked. 

II.  .Enrolling  officers  will  proceed,  as  rapidly  as  practicable,  in  the 
enrolment  of  a^^^je/sons  made  liable  to  military  service.  P^-evious  to 
enrolment  as  conscripts,  all  such  persons  will  be  allowed  to  volunteer: 
provided, 

1st.  The  company  selected  was  in  service  on  the  IGth  of  April,  lSfi2'. 

2d.  The  company  selected  is,  at  the  time  of  volunteering,  below  the 
minimum  number  prescribed  Ijy  regulations. 

*.3d.  No  person  made  liable  to  service  under  this  order  will  ho  per- 
mitted to  join,  or  will  be  assigned  to,  any  company  which  has  more  than 
si.\ty-four  privates  on  the  roll,  until  all  the  companies  in  the  service 
from  the  state  of  which  the  volunteer  or  conscript  is  a  resident,  shall 
have  the  minimum  number  prescribed  by  regulations. 

4th.  Tlpon  the  company  being  selected,  the  volunteer  will  receive 
from  the  enrolling  oflicer  a  certificate  to  the  effect  that  he  has  so  volun- 
•teored;  and  no  volunteer  will  be  received  in  any  company  except  cm 
such  certificate. 

*  Amended  ^pyQeueral  Orelors,  No.  22,  paragraph  II,.  c.  3. 


III.. Persons  who  fail  to  make  suloction  according  to  the  provisions 
of  this  order,  niul  sit  the  time  of  enlistnieiif,  will  he  assigneJ  according 
to  existing  regnl;itii)ns. 

IV.. All  olficers  in  command  of  companies  aathoriz<!d  under  this 
order  to  receive  conscripts  or  volunteers,  will  forthwith  send  to  the 
commandant  of  conscripts  of  the  state  accurate  cortiiicd  rolls  of  their 
companies:  and  without  such  roll,  showing  that  thoy  do  not  exceed 
sixty-four  privates,  there  will  not  be  assigned  any  conscript  or  volun- 
teer. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiilctnt  und  Inipcctor-General . 


UKXURAL  ORDERS,  |  An.iUTANT  and  Ixspector-Oenep.\l»s  Offioc, 

No.  8.  I  ,  UicnjioND.  JumtM-Ti  2.S,  lS8i . 


I.  .Paragraphs  1,129, 1,1.'',0,  1,1.31,  1,132,  Army  r.,cgulatious,  are  here- 
by revoked. 

II.  .13nlisteil  men  detailed  for  duty,  on  account  of  physical  cjisabili- 
ty,  in  the  City  of  Richmond,  are  allowed  one  Mullar  and  twenty  cents 
per  diem  as  commutation  of  rations. 

III.  .Comiuutaiion  of  rations  of  all  enlisti-d  men  enliilod  tlicrcto  liy 
the  regulations  of  the  War  department,  whether  on  det;iched  or  i>n  de- 
tailed service,  or  stationed  in  a  city,  with  no  opportunity  of  messing,  or 
of  the  non-commissioned  and  regimental  stall',  when  they  have  no  op- 
portunity of  messing,  or  of  soldiers  on  furlough,  or  stationed  where 
rations  can  not  he  issued  in  kind,  or  placed  temporarily  in  a  ))rvi;(te 
hospital,  on  the  advice  of  the  senior  surgeon  of  the  post  or.detachment, 
or  of  ordnance  sergeants,  or  of  a  soldier  who  has  neces.^arily  paid  for 
his  own  subsistence,  or  of  a  chaplain,  is  (ixed  at  one  dollar  per  diem, 
to  date  from  .Innuary  1,  1804. 

IV.  .Enlisted  men  who  have  been  or  may  become  permanently  dis- 
abled, or  who  hold  the  certificate  of  a  medicxl  exaujining  board  to  that 
efTcct,  and  who  have  not  been  discharged  the  service,  may  liave  their 
rations  commuted  at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  diem,  whether 
they  arc  in  a  hospital,  private  quarters,  or  on  furlough. 

V.  .All  commutation  accounts  will  statv  the  length  of  time,  date,  and 


amount,  for  what  purpose  eommulation  is  claimed,  and  that  it  wa^  im- 
practicable to  take  rations  in  kind ;  which  facts  must  be  certified  to  by 
the  commissioned  officer  under'whose  orders  the  soldier  was  at  the  time 
the  rations  became  due. 

*VI.. Commutation  of  rations  in  the  case  of  paroled  unexchanged 
prisoners  on  furlough,  who  have  Jhs<  been  received  from  the  Federal  linos, 
will  be  allowed  at  one  dollar  per  diem,  to  date  from  January  1,  1804. 

VII.. The  following  paragraph  will  be  substituted  for  1,111,  Army 
Regulations : 

''  Issues  to  the  hospital  will  be  on  returns  by  the  medical  officers,  for 
such  provisions  only  a?  are  actually  required  for  the  sick  and  wounded. 
The  commuted  value  of  rations  for  the  sick  and  wounded  will  bo  one 
dollar  and  twenty-five  cents.  The  ration  for  hospitals  will  be  the  same 
as  that  issued  to  soldiers  in  the  field.  If  a  greater  allowance  is  requir- 
ed of  any  particular  articles,  not  issued  to  troops  in  the  field,  special 
requisitions  must  be  made  therefor." 

fVIII.  .Hospital  attendants  can  not  draw  rations  from  the  Subsist- 
ence department,  but   will   have   their  rations  commuted  at  one  dollar 
■  and  twenty-five  cents  per  diem. 

•     By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspectoii-General's  Office, 

Jvo.  9.  )  Richmond,  January  29, 18M. 

JL.Tho  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein, 
adopted  by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of 
Virginia,  arc  announced  for  the  information  of  all  concerned ;  jind  the 
special  attention  of  officers  and  agent.s  of  the  government  is  directed 
thereto : 

II.  Richmond,  January  27,  18C4. 

Hon.  James  A.  Seddon  :  ■ 

Sir  :  In  reviewing  the  schedules  of  prices  for  February  and  March 
we  invited  the  co-operation  and  aid  of  Mr.  Wm.  B.  Harrison,  and  it  is 

*  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No  17.  puragiaph  I,  c.  s. 

t  Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  25,  paragraph  IV,  current  series. 

X  Amended  by  General  Ordere,  Nos.  41  and  47,  c.  s. 


jupt  to  add  th.ittlio  sohcdulos  received  the  uuanimous  approval  '<(  the 
commissioners.  We  respectfully  offer  the  accompanying  schedules,  A 
and  6,  with  the  understanding  that  the  prices  are  to  remain  for  the 
months  of  February  and  March  unless,  in  the  interval,  it  should  be 
deemed  necessary  to  modify  them. 

The  following  price.'?  are  to  be  the  maximum  rates  to  be  paid  for  the 
articles?  impres.'sed,  in  all  c-ities  and  u.^ual  place*  of  sale,  and  when  im- 
proKsod  on  the  farms  or  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  bo  paid.  Since 
the  passage  and  enforcement  of  tlie  law  imposing  the  tax  in  kind  ]>laces 
additional  burden.s  upon  the  farmers  of  delivering  a  tenth  of  their  pro- 
ductiou.'?,  we  think  it  rather  too  onerous  on  those  who  produce  the  most 
to  be  required  also  to  incur  the  heavy  additional  expense  of  delivering 
their  surplus. 

Under  existing  circumstances  we  have  deemed  it  not  only  just,  but 
most  likely  to  favor  increased  production,  that  producers  in  future 
should  not  be  required  to  transport  their  surplus  productions  when  im- 
pressed, but  that  the  agents  of  the  government  should  employ  or  im- 
press the  neighborhood  or  county  wagons  and  teams  to  haul  all  such 
articles,  and  so  divide  the  work  between  "the  owners  of  wagons  and 
teams  as  to  be  least  prejudicial  to  tho.se  successfully  engaged  in  agricul- 
ture. 

SCHEDtTLBf  A. 


ABTICLES. 

ftOAUTY. 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITT. 

PBICE. 

1   Wheat ; 

Prime 

Good 

Prime 

"      

Good 

White  or  red... 

Fine..... 

Superfine 

Kxtr'a  snp'fine 

Family 

White  or  yel'w 

Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  106  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  66  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of   56  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of   50  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of   50  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of   32  lUs. 
Per  bu»ihcl  of   17  lb* 
Per  bushel  of  22  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of   28  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  37  lbs. 

$    5  00 

2   Flour 

22  00 

Flour. 

25  00 

Flour 

26  50 

Flour 

3  Corn 

28  00 
4  00 

4  Unshellctl  corn 

3  95 

4  20 

0  Kve  

3  20 

2  50 

S  'Wheat  bran 

Good 

50 

9   Shorts 

70 

10  Brown  otufT. 

<i 

90 

11   Ship  stuff. 

a 

1  40 

12  Baruii   

.'.'      

Hog  round 

1  25 

13  Salt  pnrk 

1  10 

Fat  Md 
good 

Good 

First  class 

Arfillcrv'   '/."(^" 

Per  pound  net  weight 

14  Lard 

80 
1  25 

Av'ge  price  per  head 

350  00 

16  Wool 

Fiilror                      '" 

Merino 
Fair  or 

W.ished 

3  00 

17  Wool 

Merino  Unwashed 

0(K)d 

2  CO 

IS  Peax '.... 

4  OO 

10   Kent)!" 

*'    !!!!!.! iriiih'"  

4  go 

4  00 

20  Potatoei 

21   Potatoes 

<. 

Sweet 

Perbusliel 

600 

10 


ScHEDCtiE  A. — Continued. 


QOAUTY.        DESCRIPTION. 


Onions 

Uriud  peaches. 
Dried  peaches. 
Dried  apples... 
Hay,  baled 


Haj',  baled 

Hay,  unbaled. 


.Sheaf  oats,  baled 

Sheaf  o.ats,  unbaled 
BUide  fodder,  baled. 
Blade  fodder,  \mb"d. 

Shucks,  b.^led 

Shucks,  unbaled 

■\Vheat  .straw,  baled 
Wheat  straw,  uub'd 

Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Pasturage  

Pasturage 

Pastuv.'ige 

Pasturage 

Salt 

Soap 

CaadleH 

Vinegar 

Whiskey 

Sugar 

Molasses 

Rice 

Coffee 

Tea." 

Vinegar 

Pig  iron 

Pig  iron 

Pig  ir.)n 

Bloom  inm 

Smiths'  iron 


Superior  .. 
First-rate. 

Good 

Superior  .. 
First-rate.. 
Good 


Railroad  iron 

Loatl^er 

Leather 

Leather 

liuef  cattle 

Jieef  cattle l.Superior.... 

Beef  cattle JFirat-rate.. 

Slieej) Fair  . 

Army  woollen  cloth, 

■^yard |(}ood 

Army  woollen  cloth  i     ■' 


Peeled 

Unpeoled 

Peeled 

Timothy 

or  clover 
Orchard  or 

herd  gr.iss 
Orchard  or 

herd  gr.ass 


Near  cities. 


Tallow 

Cider 

Trade \ 

Brown , 

New  Orleans... 


Rio 

Trade 

.Manufactured. 
No.  1  quality... 
No. 'icjuality... 
No. a  quality. .. 


Hound,  i)late, 
and  bar 


Harness 

Solo 

Upper 

Gross  weight.. 


Army  woollen  cloth 

0-4ynrd 

Army  woollen  cloth 


Flannels %, 

Cotton  .■ihirling....M' 


10  oz.  jier.yd... 
Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 
width  or  wei't. 

20  oz.  per  yd... 
Pio  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 
width  or  wei't 
6  <)/..  per  yard. 
4' r:  yards  to  lb 


Per  bnshol 

Per  bushel 

I'er  bushel 

Per  bushel 

Per  100  [tounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  [lonnds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs.. 

\\v  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon w 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon ;.... 

Per  ion 

Per  ton 

Per  tiin ,.. 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  too  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  head 

Per  yard  


Per  yard  , 


$  .')  00 
8  00 
4  50 
3  00 

3  50 

3  00 

3  00 
•1  00 
3  50 
a  50 
3  00 

2  20 
1  f  0 

1  so 

1  30 

3  00 

4  00 
."■>  00 

5  00 

0  00 
7  00 
5  00 

40 

2  00 

2  00 

3  00 

1  50 
10  00 

20 

3  00 

7  00 

50 

150  00 

132  00 

120  00 

216  00 

4.'!0  00 
190  00 

2  r.!) 

2  40 

2  80 

10  00 

IS  On 
20  00 
30  00 

5  00 


Per  yard  

Per  yard  


10  00 


4  00 
56 


1] 


Schedule  A. — Continued. 


QUALITY.         DESCRIl'TION. 


73  Cotton  shirting.. ..% 

74  Cotton  glieet'gs...4-4 

75  Cotton  osunl)'ga...5-i 

76  Cotton  osnab'gs...'i2 
i7  Cotton  drilla .J| 

78  Cot.  shirting  stripe? 

79  Cotton  tent  cloths 


Good . 


3%yariI.stolb.  Peryi\rd  $      84' 

3  y.ird.s  to  lb...  IPer  ynrd  87 

6  07..  per  yard..!  Per  yard  75 

8  07,.  per  var<l..|Per  yard 88 

3y.ards  to  lb...  I  Per  yard 88 

3  yards  to  lb...  Per  "yard '. 88 

10  oz.  per  yard  I  Per  yard  1  12 

80  On  tlio  above  euunicrated  cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  ns  to  greater  or  less  width  or 
weight 


81  Cotton  warps 

82  Army  shoes 

83  Shoo  thread 

84  AVool  socks,  men's... 

85  Mules 

86  Corn-top  foddor.bl'd 

87  Corn-top  fodiler,  un- 

baled 

88  Wheat  chaff,  b.aled.. 

89  Wheat  cliatt'.  unb'd.. 

90  Sorghum   molasses.. 

91  Pasturage  for  sUrep 

92  Pasturage  fur  sheep 

93  Pasturitge  for  sheep 


Good. 


First-rate. 
Good 


Superior... 
First-rate.. 


Wagon,  etc.. 


Per  pound 

Per  pair 

Per  pound 

Per  pair 

Av'ge  price  per  head, 
Per  100  pounds 


Per  100  pounds... 
Per  100  pounds... 
Per  100  pounds... 

Per  gallon 

Per  head 

Per  head 

■Per  head 


2  00 

10  00 

2  00 

1  25 
300  00 

2  00 

1  60 

2  00 
1  50 
8  00 

40 
60 
60 


In  assessing  the  average  value  of  "first-clas.s  artillery  and  wagon 
horses  at  $350,"  we  designed  that  the  term  should  be  accepted  and  act- 
ed upon  accordini;;  to  its  obvious  coniniOn-sensc  import.  In  other  words, 
that  horses  should  be  selected,  .and  then  impressed  accordingly  as  their 
working  qualities  and  adaptation  to  army  service,  together  with  their 
intrinsic  valne,  would  warrant  .a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering 
them  as  coming  within  the  contemplation  of  the  commissioners  when 
they  assessed  the  average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  government  nee'd- 
ed  at  S350.  But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  exigencies 
would  be  so  urgent  as  to  demand  that  all  hor.scs  at  hand  should  be  im- 
pressed. Yet,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  family  or  extra- 
blooded  horse.-i,  or  brood  mares  of  admitted  hhjli  vulue,  are  impressed,  we 
respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have  instructions,  for- 
warded to  the  impressing  officers  to  propose  and  allow  the  owners  to 
substitute  in  their  stead  such  strong,  soiiud,  and  serviceable  horses  or 
mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued  bj' competent  and  disinterested 
partie.s  as  first-class  artillery'  horses  or  first-rate  wagon  mules. 

The  term  "average  value  per  head"  was  used  in  contradistinction  to 
a  lixcd  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We  suppose  that,  in 
impres.sing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  wlietlier  owned  by  several  per- 
sons or  one  individual,  that  some  might  be  estimated  at  .'f250,  or  even 
at  less,  and  others  at  different  advanced  rates,  according  to  their  worth, 
upas  high  as  .i;4.')0,  or  above  that  amount — thus  making  an  <tre^;/e 
v.alue  or  price  for  a  tnmihcr  of  good,  Sound,  and  efficient  borsca,  $350 
each,  and  mules,  ♦.'^OO  each. 


12 


In  illustration  of  our  views,  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with  only  one 
ey^ouud  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  a  first-rate  artille- 
ry horse,  yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and  considerably  curtail 
his  value.  So  a  horse  from  ten  to  eighteen  years  of  age  might  bo 
deemed  in  all  other  particulars  as  a  first-class  artillery  horse,  but  of 
course,  however  efficient  or  able  to  render  good  service  for  a  year  or  so, 
yet  his  advanced  age  would  justly  aud  materially  impair  his  value. 
Any  horse,  however  he  may  ai)pro.\imat«  the  standard  of  a  first-class 
artillery  horse,  must,  according  to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum 
price  ;  and  as  few  comparatively  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and 
therefore  are  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so,  of  course,  in  all  other 
instances  the  j)rice  should  be  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfections 
place  them  below  the  standard  of  first-class,  etc. 


Schedule  B — Hire  of  Labor,  Teams,  Wagons,  and  Drivers. 


1.  Baling  long  forage 

2.  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur- 

nished by  government 

.S.  Hauling 

4.  Hauling  grain 

5.  Hire  of  two-horse    tearn,    wagon,    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner.  • 

6.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government  ....'. 

7.  Hire    of  four-horse  team,    wagon,  and 
I  driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . 

8.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government .' 

9.  Hire   of    six-horse   team,    wagon,    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . 

10.  Hire  of  same,  rations   furnished  by  the 

government 

11.  Hire  of  laborer,   rations   furnished  by 

owner 

12.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

13.  Hire  of  same,  rations  and  clothing  fur- 

nished by  owner 

14.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

15.  Hire  of  teamsters,  rations  furnished  by 

government 

10.  Hire    of  laborer,   clothing  and   rations 
furnished  by  government 

17.  Hire  of  same,  clothing  and  ratio'ns  fur- 

nished by  owner 

18.  Hire  of  same,  rations  only  furnished  by 

government 


Quantity  and  Time. 


Per  100  pounds. 

Per  60  pounds. 
Per  cwt.  per  mile 
Per  bus.  per  mile 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  day 

Per  month 

Per  month 

Per  month 

Per  year  

Per  year  

Per  year  ...•••• 


$0  50 

05 
OS 
04 

10  00 

,    5  00 

13  00 

6  50 

16  00 

8  00 

.2  50 

1  50 

50  00 

30  00 

40  00 

300  00 

560  00 

400  00 


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■  upon  further  consideration,  wc  have  concluded  to  viiliic  sheaf  oats, 
hay,  and  blade  fodder,  catt  of  ike  Blue  Ridge  mountainn,  when  baled,  at 
$5  per  hundred  pounds,  and  unbaled  at  i?4  50  per  hundred  pounds,  and 
shucks  baled  at  $3  50  per  hundred  pounds,  and  $3  unbaled. 

E.  W.  IltlBARD, 

Robert  (tibbonkv, 
Wm.  B.  Haukison, 
Commitgioncrs  for  Virginia. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  10.  j  Ricu.MOND,  January  30, 1864. 


The  authority  given  in  General  Orders,  No.  85,  scries  of  1863,  to 
impress  iron,  is  extended  to  the  impressment  of  ore,  timber,  and  all 
materials  essential  to  the  production  and  manufacture  of  iron. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjntunt  and  Inspeetor-Ocneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  11.  J  Richmond,  February  1, 1864. 

I.  .Examining  boards  for  conscripts  will,  when  practicable,  be  com- 
posed of  two  medical  officers  and  one  employed  surgeon. 

They  will  hold  continuous  sessions  in  the  several  counties  of  their 
respective  districts,  to  facilitate  the  execution  of  the  duties  prescribed 
\iy  General  Orders,  No.  141,  1863,  from  this  office. 

II.  .Paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  141,  last  series  from  this 
office,  is  amended  to  provide  that  in  all  cases  where  there  are  two 
medical  officers  on  the  boards  for  the  examination  of  conscripts,  recom- 
mendations and  certificates  must  be  concurred  in  and  signed  by  both 
medical  officers. 

By  order. 

8.  COOPER, 
%  Adjutonf  and  Ituytctor-Gentra! . 


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GENEEAL  OKDEliS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  12.  j  KlCHMOKD,  February  2, 1864. 

I.. At  a  Military  Court,  commenced  at  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  anil 
continued  at  Abingdon,  Virginia,  November  7, 1863,  and  on  subsequent 
days,  of  which  Court  Colonel  Thomas  Iluffin,  Jr.,  is  Presiding  Judge, 
was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Second  Lieutenant  Harry  Clatj,  Company  D,  1st  Ky.  Md.  Rifles, 
on  the  following  charges: 

Charrje  lat :  Mutiny. 

Charge  2d  :  Disobedience  of  orders. 

(The  spedflcations  being  lengthy,  are  here  omitted.) 
•  Finding  of.  the  Court. 

Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  cashiered. 

II.  .And  at  the  same  Court,  continued  at  Bristol,  Tennessee,  Pcceni- 
ber  18,  1863,  and  on  subsequent  days,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

'    Lieutenant-  George  E.    Route,   Company    A,    1st  battalion   Ky.   Md. 
Eifles,  on  the  charge  of: 

Charge:   Mutiny.  » 

(The  specifications  are  omitted  on  account  of  their  length.) 
Finding  of  the  Court. 

Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  cashiered.  ' 

III.  .And  at  the  same  Court,  continued  at  Bristol,  Tennessee,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1863,  and  on  subsequent  days,  was  arraigned  and  tried : 

Lieutenant  Peyton  S.  Stout,  Company  E,  2d  Ky.  Md.  Rifles,  on  the 
charge  of: 

Charge  :  Mutiny. 

(The  specification  is  omitted  on  account  of  its  length.) 

Finding  of  the  Court. 
Of  the  Charge :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  cashiered. 

IV.  .The  findings  and  sentences  in  the  foregoing  cases  are  approved, 
but  the  Commanding  General  having  suspended  the  eentence  in  each, 


In 

and  the  proceedings  Iiaviuj:;  ))cou  laid  bcibrc  the  rrcsideiit,  the  iollow- 
ing  are  his  orders  thereon : 

1.  In  the  case  of  Second  Lieutenant  Harry  Clay,  Company  D,  1st 
Ky.  Md.  Rifles,  the  sentence  is  commuted  to  suspension  from  rank.and 
command  for  three  months,  and  reprimand  in  orders;  which  will  be 
administered  by  the  Commanding  General  of  the  Department  of  West 
Virginia  and  East  Tennessee;  at  the  end  of  which  time  Lieutenant 
Cliiy  will  return  to  duty. 

2  and  3.  In  the  cases  of  Lieutenant  (5corgo  E.  Route,  Company  A, 
1st  battalion  Ky.  Md.  Rifles,  and  Lieutenant  Peyton  S.  Stout,  Compa- 
ny E,  2d  Ky.  Md.  Rifles,  the  sentences  are  remitted,  and  they  will  bo 
released  from  arrest  and  restored  to  duty. 
15y  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
AiljtiUint  and  luspcctor-Ucnernl. 


GENERAL  ORDEItS.'i  At>jutan"T  and  IiNsrECTOii-GKNEEAL's  Office, 

No.  13.  j  Wicnaoa-D,  February  Z.\&QA. 

I.. In  the  event  of  the  loss  of  conipanj'  records,  and  the  consequent 
inability  of  the 'commanding  officers  to  certify  therefrom  the  clothing 
accounts  of  soldiers,  said  accounts  may  be  stated  from  memory,  pro- 
vided such  statements  arc  supported  by  the  affidavits  of  the  soldiers 
interested- 

II.. When,  from  the  casualties  of  war,  companies  have  been  entirely 
deprived  of  their  officers,  in  the  adjustment  of  clothing  accounts  the 
affidavit  of  the  soldier,  together  with  those  of  two  of  his  comrades, 
will  be  esteemed  sufficient  evidence  to  authorize  a  settlement  with  him, 
if  the  statement  shall  be  approved  by  tho  regimental  commander. 

-  III.  .Hereafter  tho  articles  of  clothing  issued  during  the  year  will  be 
stated  opposite  the  name  of  each  soldier,  upon  tho  muster-roll  of  his 
company,  at  tho  annual  settlement  directed  in  General  Orders,  No.  100, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  December  8,  1S62. 

IV..  The  attention  of  company  commanders  iff  called  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  above  quoted  General  Orders.  By  failing  to  account  fur 
clothing  received  by  them  for  i.ssue  to  their  men,  they  render  them- 
selves liable  to  be  charged  with  its  value,  and  a  stoppage  of  thoir  pay 
to  the  amount. 


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*Vt.From  aud  after  the  1st  of  February,  1864,  instead  of  supplying 
company  commanders  with  clothing  for  their  men,  olTicors  of  the  Quar- 
termaster's department  will  issue  to  the  soldier,  upon  the  requisition  of 
his  immediate  commanding  oflScer. 

fVI.  .In  making  payments  to  soldiers  upon  descriptive  lists,  officers 
of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will  be  careful  to  endorse  thereon 
the  amounts  paid,  and  the  time  for  which  they  haye  been  paid,  return- 
ing the  Same  to  them  for  delivery  to  their  company  commanders,  and 
filing  with  .their  accounts  a  certified  copy  thereof. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gekeral's  Office, 

No.  14.  J  Richmond,  February  4, 1864. 


The  following  order  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned : 

Confederate  States  of  America, 
War  Department,  Richmond,  February  1,  1864. 
Exchange  Notice,  No.  8. 

1.  All  prisoners  heretofore  held  by  the  United  States  authorities, 
whether  officers,  soldiers,  or  civili<i7is,  received  at  City  Point  be/ore  the 
1st  of  January,  1-864,  are  hereby  declared  exchanged. 

2.  All  officers  and  men  of  the  Vicksburg  capture,  who  reported  for 
duty  at  Enterprise,  Mississippi,  at  any  time  prior  to  the  Uth  of  Novem- 
ber, 1863,  and  whose  names  were  forwarded  to  me  by  Major-General 
John  H.  Forney,  arc  declared  exchanged. 

.3.  All  officers  and  men  of  the  Vicksburg  capture,  belonging  to  the 
Ist  Tennessee  heavy  artillery,  who  reported  for  duty  at  Marietta,  Ga-, 
and  whose  names  were  forwarded  to  me  by  Colonel  A.  Jackson,  are 
declared  exchanged. 

Ro.  OuLD,  Agent  of  Exchange. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 

*  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  2S,  paragraph  I,  c.  s. 
+  Amended  by  General  Ordera,  No.  35,  paragraph  VI,  c.  ». 


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lL  orders, 'i 

0.  15.  j 


GENERAL  0RDERS,1  ABJiiTANff  and  iNaPEcxoa-GisNERAL's  Office, 

No.  15.  j  Richmond,  Fcbruari/  5, 1804. 


I.. General  Orders,  No.  137,  series  of  1863,  is  hereby  revoked. 

n. .Supplies  of  provisions,  in  transitfl  to  arsenals,  armories,  and 
ordnance  depots,  for  thtf  use  of  operatives,  under  the  order  of  .com- 
manding officers  of  the  same,  will  not  be  interfered  with  by  ofiScers  of 
the  departments. 

III.. As  the  various  railroads  of  the  Confederacy  for  the  transpor- 
tation of  troops,  supplies,  and  munitions  of  war,  are  under  the  control 
of  tho  Quartermaster's  department,  the  orders  of  commanding  gener- 
als, and  other  officers,  relating  to  such  transportation  by  railroad, 
will  be  immediately  furnished  to  the  Quartermaster-Ooncral,  in  order 
that  arrangements  may  be  made  in  time  to  harmonize  the  various 
routes  so  as  to  prevent  accident  and  delays. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  (did  inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDER^,"|  Adjutam  and  Inspector-Geneiiai/b  Offici:, 

No.  16.  j  Richmond,  February  6, 1864. 

I.  .The  Bureau  of  Conscription  aflords  adequate  means  for  bringing 
into  service  persons  liable  to  military  duty;  and  all  authorities  given 
prior  to  December  1, 1863,  to  raise  troops  from  men  not  within  tho  lines 
of  the  enemy,  or  to  recruit  for  any  particular  command  in  the  field,  are 
hereby  revoked. 

II.  .Recruits  enlisted  by  authority  for  new  companies  which  have  not 
at  this  time  seventy-two  non-cnuimissioned  officers  and  privates  actually 
mustered  upon  the  roll's,  will  be  turned  over  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion, and  allowed  to  select  any  infantry  company  they  may  prefer,  under 
tho  provisions  of  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  7,  1864. 

III.  .Persons  acting  under  authorities  to  enlist  men  for  new  corapa- 
nicB,  either  without  or  within  the  lines  of  tho  enemy,  granted  since 
December  1,  1863,  will  at  once  report  to  the  commanding  general  of 
the  department  in  which  they  m.ay  be,  copies  of  such  authority,  with  a 
statement  of  the  number  of  men  enrolled  by  them  ;  and  without  fur- 
ther authorization  from  such  commanders,  their  power  will  expire  at 
tho  end  ol  thirty  days  frota  the  date  of  this  order. 


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IV.  .The  preceding  orders  are  not  intended  to  have  any  effect  in  the 
trans-Mississippi  department. 

V.  .Commandants  of  posts  and  officers  of  the  Conscription  Bureau 
will  enforce  this  order. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Acljtitaiit  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OllDERS,  \  Adjdtant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No,  17.  )  KiCHMOND,  February  8,  1864. 

I.  .Paragraph  VI,  General  Orders,  No.  8,  current  series,  is  amended 
thus : 

"Commutation  of  rations,  at  one  dollar  per  dicni,  will  be  allowed 
paroled  unexchanged  prisoners  on  furlough.  Tlris  order  to  take  effect 
from  the  1st  of  January,  1864.  The  officer  pacing  the  accounts  will 
endorse  on  the  furlough  the  date  and  length  of  time  for  which  payment 
has  been  made.-" 

II.  .Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  97  (scries  1862),  is  amended 
thus : 

"  Officers  and  agents  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  arc  hereby  or- 
dered not  to  interfere  with  leather  or  hides  purchased  or  contracted  for 
by  officers  or  agents  of  the  Ordnance  department." 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adpttant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office, 

No.  18.  j  Richmond,  February  9, 1864. 

I.  .Applications  from  officers  of  the  nitre  and  mining  corps  for  field 
service  can  not  now  be  considered.  Workmen  employed  by  them  may 
be  organized  and  armed  for  local  defence,  but  their  military  order.s 
must  be  subordinated  to  work,  as  the  leading  aim  and  consideration, 
and  second  in  importance  to  no  other  military  service. 

II.  -A  limit  (not  yet  reached)  to  the  number  of  able-bodied  workmen 
to  be  assigned  to  this  service— .submitted  by  the  Chief  of  the  Nitre  and 


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Mining  Bureau — has  boon  carefully  oonsidorod  and  approved,  and  com- 
municated to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription  as  a  guide  for  its  action. 

III.  .Military  commanders  will  extend  to  the  nitro  and  mining  ser- 
vice, especially  in  districts  exposed  to  the  enemy,  protection,  aid,  and 
encouragement.  *• 

IV.. General  Orders^  No.  32  (series  1863),  forbids  interference  with 
the  workmen  or  employees  at  mines,  furnaces,  or  nitre  works,  whether 
worked  by  the  government  or  contractors.     These  orders  are  now  re- 
peated, and  especial  attention  is  called  to  them. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GKNERAXy  OKDKItS,"!  Adjutant  and  In8PectorGei«eral's  Office, 

No.  19.  j  Richmond,  February  10, 1864. 

The  following  Addres.s  of  the  President  is  \niblishcd  for  the  informa- 
tion of  the  army : 

Soldiers  of  the  Armies  of  the  Confederate  States  : 

In  the  long  and  bloody  war  in  which  your  country  is  engaged  you 
hiivc  achieved  many  noble  triumphs.  You  have  won  glorious  vic- 
tories over  vastly  more  numerous  hosts.  You  have  cheerfully  borne 
privations  and  toils  to  which  you  were  unused.  You  have  readily  sub- 
mitted to  restraints  upon  your  individual  will,  that  the  citizen  might 
better  perform  his  duty  to  the  state  as  a  soldier.  To  all  these  you  have 
lately  added  another  triumph,  the  noblest  of  human  conquests — a  vic- 
tory over  yourselves. 

As  the  time  drew  near  when  you  who  first  entered  the  service  might 
well  have  been  expected  to  claim  relief  from  your  arduous  labors  and 
restoration  to  the  endearments  of  home,  you  have  heeded  only  the  call 
of  %pur  suffering  country.  Again  you  come  to  tender  your  service  for 
the  public  defence — a  free  offering,  which  only  such  patriotism  as  yours 
could  make— a  triumph  worthy  of  you,  and  of  the  cause  to  which  you 
are  devoted. 

I  would  in  vain  attempt  adequately  to  express  the  emotions  with 
which  I  received  the  tcitimonials  of  confidence  and  regard  which  you 
have  recently  addressed  to  mc.  To  some  of  those  first  received,  sepa- 
rate aoknowledgmcnts  were  returned.  But  it  is  now  apparent  that  a 
like  generous  enthusiasm  pervades  the  whole  army,  and  that  the  only 
exception  to  ?ui-h  magnanimous  tender  will  be  of  those  who,  having 


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originally  entered  for  the  war,  can  not  display  anew  their  zeal  in  the 
public  service.  It  is,  therefore,  deemed  appropriate,  and,  it  is  hoped, 
will  be  equally  acceptable,  to  make  a  general  acknowledgment,  instead 
of  successive  special  responses.  Would  that  it  were  possible  to  render 
my  thanks  to  you  in  person,  and  in  the  name  of  our  common  country, 
as  well  as  in  my  own,  while  pressing  the  hand  of  each  war-worn  veter- 
an, to  recognize  his  title  to  our  love,  gratitude,  Jind  admiration. 

Soldiers !  By  your  will  (for  you  and  the  people  are  but  one)  I  have 
been  placed  in  a  position  which  debars  me  from  sharing  your  dangers, 
your  sufiFerings,  and  your  privations  in  the  field.  AVith  pride  and  affec- 
tion my  heart  has  accompanied  you  in  every  march  ;  with  solicitude  it 
has  sought  to  minister  to  your  every  want ;  with  exultation  it  has  mark- 
ed your  everj'  heroic  achievement.  .  Yet,  never  in  the  toilsome  march, 
nor  in  the  weary  watch,  nor  in  the  desperate  assault,  have  you  rendered 
a  service  so  decisive  in  results  as  in  this  last  display  of  the  highest 
qualities  of  devotion  and  self-sacrifice  which  can  adorn  the  character 
of  the  warrior-patriot. 

Already  the  pulse  of  the  whole  people  beats  in  unison  with  yours. 
Already  they  compare  your  spontaneous  and  unanimous  offer  of  your 
lives,  for  the  defence  of  your  country,  with  the  halting  and  reluctant 
service  of  the  mercenaries  who  arc  purchased  by  the  enemy  at  the  price 
of  higher  bounties  than  have  hitherto  been  known  in  war.  Animated 
by  this  contrast,  they  exhibit  cheerful  confidence  and  more  resolute 
bearing.  Even  the  murmurs  of  the  weak  and  timid,  who  shrink  from 
the  trials  which  make  stronger  and  firmer  your  noble  natures,  are 
shamed  into  silence  by  the  spectacle  which  you  present.  Your  brave 
battle-cry  will  ring  loud  and  clear  through  the  land  of  the  enemy,  as 
well  as  our  own ;  will  silence  the  vain-glorious  boastings  of  their  cor- 
rupt partisans  and  their  pensioned  press,  and  will  do  justice  to  the 
calumny  by  which  they  seek  to  persuade  a  deluded  people  that  you  are 
ready  to  purchase  dishonorable  safety  by  degrading  submission. 

Soldiers  !  The  coming  spring  campaign  will  open  under  auspices  well 
calculated  to  sustain  your  hopes.  Your  resolution  needed  nothing  to 
fortify  it.  With  ranks  replenished  under  the  influence  of  your  exam- 
ple, and  by  the  aid  of  your  representatives,  who  give  earnest  of  their 
purpose  to  add,  by  legislation,  largely  to  your  strength,  you  may  wel- 
come the  invader  with  a  confidence  justified  by  the  memory  of  past 
Tictories.  On  the  other  hand,  debt,  taxation,  repetition  of  heavy 
drafts,  dissensions,  occasioned  by  the  strife  for  power,  by  the  pursuit  of 
the  spoils  of  office,  by  the  thirst  for  the  plunder  of  the  public  treasury — 
and,  above  all,  the  consciousness  of  a  bad  caase — must  tell  with  fearful 
force  upon  the  overstrained  energies  of  the  enemy.  His  campaign  in 
1864  must,  from  the  exhaustion  of  his  resources  both  in  men  and  money, 


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be  far  loss  formidable  than  those  of  the  last  two  yoara,  when  unim-- 
paired  means  were  used  with  boundless  prodigality,  and  with  results 
which  are  suggested  by  the  mention  of  the  glorious  names  of  Shiloh, 
and  Porrysville,  and  Murfreesboro',  and  Chickamauga,  and  the  Chick- 
ahominy,  and  Manassas,  and  Fredericksburg?,  and  Chancellorsville. 

Soldiers !  Assured  success  awaits  us  in  our  holy  struggle  for  liberty 
and  independence,  and  for  the  preservation  of  all  that  renders  life  de- 
sirable to  honorable  men.  When  that  success  shall  be  reached,  to  you, 
your  country's  hope  and  pride,  under  Divine  Providence,  will  it  be  due. 
The  fruits  of  that  success  will  not  be  reaped  by  you  alone,  but  your 
children,  and  your  children's  children,  in  long  generations  to  como, 
will  enjoy  blessings  derived  from  you,  that  will  preserve  your  memory 
over-living  in  their  hearts.         v-- 

Citizen-defonders  of  the  homos,  the  liberties,  and  the  altars  of  the 
Confederacy  !  That  the  God  whom  we  all  humbly  worship  may  shield 
you  with  his  Fatherly  care,  and  preserve  you  for  safe  return  to  the 
peaceful  enjoyment  of  your  friends  and  the  association  of  those  you 
most  love,  is  the  earnest  prayer  of  your  Comiuandcr-in-Chicf. 

Jkfi'T.rson  Davis. 

Jllchmond,  Febntary  9,  1864. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  fnspector-OeneraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adjutant  and  iNsrEOTOR-GENERAL'a  Ofpick, 

No.  20.  j  '     RicHMONn,  February  12, 1864. 

The  first  paragraph  of  General  Orders,  No.  138  (18G3),  is  modified  by  the 
omission  of  the  words  "  in  states  in  which  provisions  have  not  been  made 
on  this  subject"  (impressment  of  slaves) ;  and  clause  7  of  the  same  order 
is  so  far  modified  as"  to  allow  the  rate  of  compensation  for  slaves  im- 
pressed under  the  act  of  26th  of  March,  1863,  to  bo  established  by  ap- 
praisers appointed  under  that  act :  ji>roi'idcrf  the  price  thus  fixed  does 
not  exceed  the  sum  prescribed  by  the  law  of  the  state  in  which  such 
slaves  are  impressed. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjttlant  and  Insj)ccl6r-0'encrnl. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral's  Offick, 

No.  21.  f  Richmond,  Febr>mry  20, 1864. 

The  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information  of  the 
army  : 


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AN  ACT  TO  REDUCE   THE  CTJRRENCV,  AND  TO  AUTHORIZE  A  NEW  ISSUE  OF 
NOTES  AND  BONDS. 

Sec  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  holders  of  all  treasury  notes  above  the  denomination  of  five 
dollars)  not  bearing  interest,  shall  be  allowed  until  the  first  day  of 
April,  1864,  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and  until  1st  day  of  July,  1864, 
west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  to  fund  the  same  :  and  until  the  periods 
and  at  the  places  stated  the  holders  of  all  such  treasury  notes  shall  be 
allowed  to  fund  the  same  in  registered  bonds  payable  twenty  years 
after  their  date,  bearing  interest  at  the  rate  of  four  per  cent,  per  annum, 
payable  on  the  1st  day  of  January  and  July  of  each  year. 

Sec  2.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue 
the  bonds  required  for  the  funding  provided  for  in  the  preceding  8ec- 
tion;  and  until. the  bonds  can  be  prepared,  he  may  issue  certificates  to 
answer  the  purpose.  Such  bonds  and  .certificates  shall  be  receivable, 
without  interest,  in  payment  of  all  government  dues  payable  in  the 
year  1864,  except  export  and  import  duties. 

Sec  3.  That  all  treasury  notes  of  the  denomination  of  one  hundred 
dollars,  not  bearing  interest,  which  shall  not  be  presented  for  funding 
under  the  provisions  of  the  first  section  of  this  act,  shall,'from  and  after 
the  first  day  of  April,  1864,  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and  the  first 
day  of  July,  1864,  west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  cease  to  be  receivable 
in  the  payment  of  public  dues ;  and  said  notes,  if  not  so  presented  at 
that  time,  shall,  in  addition  to  the  tax  of  thirty-three  and  one-third 
cents  imposed  in  the  4th  section  of  this  act,  be  subject  to  a  tax  of  ten 
per  cent,  per  month  until  so  presented  ;  which  taxes  shall  attach  to  said 
notes  wherever  circulated,  and  shall  be  deducted  from  the  face  of  said 
notes  whenever  presented  for  payment  or  for  funding,  and  said  notes 
shall  not  be  exchangeable  for  the  new  issue  of  treasury  notes  provided 
for  in  this  act.  • 

Sec  4.  That  on  all  said  treasury  notes  not  funded  or  used  in  pay- 
ment of  taxes  at  the  dates  and  places  prescribed  in  the  first  section  of 
this  act,  there  shall  be  levied  at  said  dates  and  places  a  tax  of  thirty- 
three  and  one-third  cents  for  every  dollar  promised  on  the  face  of  said 
notes.  Said  tax  shall  attach  to  said  notes  wherever  circulated,  and 
shall  be  collected  by  deducting  the  same  at  the  treasury,  its  deposita- 
ries, and  by  the  tax  collectors,  and  by  all  government  ofiicers  receiving 
the  same,  whenever  presented'for  payment  or  for  funding,  or  in  payment 
of  government  dues,  or  for  postage,  or  in  exchange  for  new  notes  as 
hereinafter  provided ;  and  said  treasury  notes  shall  be  fundable  in 
bonds,  as  provided  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  until  the  1st  day  of 
January,  1865,  at  the  rate  of  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  cents  on  the  dol- 
lar ;   ami  it  shall  be  the  duty  cf  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  at  any 


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time  between  the  1st  of  April,  cast,  and  the  1st  of  July,  1864,  west  of 
the  Mississippi  river,  and  the  1st  of  January,  18f)5,  to  substitute  and 
oxchange  new  treasury  notes  for  the  same,  at  the  rate  of  sixty-six  and 
two-thirds  cents  on  the  dollar:  provided,  that  notes  of  the  denomina- 
tion of  one  hundred  dollars  shall  not  be  entitled  to  the  privilege  of  said 
oxchange :  provided,  further,  that  the  right  to  fund  any  of  aajd  treasury 
notes  after  first  day  of  January,  1865,  is  Ijereby  taken  away:  nnd pro- 
vided,further,  that  upon  all  such  treasury  notes  which  may  remain  out- 
standing on  the  first  day  of  January,  1865,  and  which  may  not  be  ex- 
changed for  new  treasury  notes  as  herein  provided,  a  tax  of  one  hun- 
dred iier  cent,  is  hereby  imposed. 

Sec.  5.  That  after  thn  first  day  of  April  next  all  authority  heretofore 
given  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  to  issue  treasury  notes  shall  be 
and  is  hereby  revoked  :  provided,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may, 
after  that  time,  issue  new  treasury  notes,  in  such  form  as  ho  may  pre- 
scribe, payable  two  years  after  the  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace  with 
the  United  States — said  new  issues  to  be  receivable  in  payment  of  all 
public  dues  except  export  and  import  duties,  and  to  be  issued  in  ex- 
change for  old  notes  at  the  rate  of  two  dollars  of  the  new  for  throe  dol- 
lars of  the  old  issues,  whether  said  old  notes  be  surrendered  for  ex- 
change by  the  holders  thereof,  or  be  received  into  the  treasury  under 
the  provisions  of  this  act;  and  the  holders  of  the  new  notes  or  of  the 
old  notes,  except  those  of  the  denomination  of  one  hundred  dollars, 
after  they  are  reduced  to  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  cents  on  the  dollar, 
by  the  tax  aforesaid,  may  convert  the  same  into  call  certificates,  bear- 
ing interest  at  the  rate  of  four  per  cent,  per  annum,  and  payable  two 
years  after  the  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace  with  the  United  States, 
unless  sooner  converted  into  new  notes. 

Sec.  6.  That  to  pay  the  expenses  of  the  government  not  otherwise 
provided  for,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized  to  is- 
sue six  per  cent,  bonds  to  an  ataount  not  exceeding  five  hundred  mil- 
lions of  dollars,  the  principal  and  intei-cst  whereof  shall  be  free  from 
taxation ;  and  for  the  payment  of  the  interest  thereon,  the  entire  net 
■  receipts  of  any  export  duty  hereafter  laid  on  the  value  of  all  cotton,  to- 
bacco, and  naval  stores  which  shall  bo  exported  from  the  Confederato 
States,  and  the  net  proceeds  of  the  import  duties  now  laid,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary  to  pay  annually  the  interest,  are  hereby 
specially  pledged  :  jirovided,  that  the  duties  now  laid  upon  imports  and 
hereby  pledged,  shall  hereafter  be  paid  in  specie,  or  in  sterling  exchange, 
or  in  the  coupons  of  said  bonds.  " 

Sec.  7.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized,  from 
time  to  time,  as  the  wants  of  the  treasury  may  require  it,  to  sell  or  hy- 
pothecate for  treasury  notes  said  bonds,  or  any  part  thereof,  upon  the 


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best  terms  he  caa,  so  as  to  meet  appropriations  by  Congress,  and  at 
the  same  time  reduce  and  restrict  the  amount  of  the  circulation  in  treas- 
ury notes  within  reasonable  and  safe  limits. 

Sec.  8.  The  bonds  authorized  by  the  sixth  soctipn  of  this  act  may  be 
either  registered  or  coupon  bonds,  as  the  parties  taking  them  may  elect, 
and  they  may  be  exchanged  for  each  other  under  such  regulations  as 
the  Secretary  of  the  TreasuVy  may  prescribe.  They  shall  be  for  one 
hundred  dollars,  or  some  multiple  of  one  hundred  dollars,  and  shall, 
together  with  the  coupons  thereto  attached,  be  in  such  form  and  of 
such  authentication  as  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  prescribe. 
The  interest  shall  be  payable  half-yearly,  on  the  first  of  -January  and 
July  in  each  year — the  principal  shall  be  payable  not  less  than  thirty 
years  from  their  date. 

Sec.  9.  All  call  certificates  shall  be  fundable,  and  shall  be  taxed  in 
all  respects,  as  'is  provided  for  the  treasury  notes  into  which  they  are 
convertible.  If  not  converted  before  the  time  fixed  for  taxing  the 
treasury  notes,  such  certificates  shall  from  that  time  bear  interest  upon 
only  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  cents  for  every  dollar  promised  upon 
their  face,  and  shall  be  redeemable  only  in  new  treasury  notes  at  that 
rate ;  but  after  the  passage  of  thia  act  no  call  certificates  shall  be  issued 
until  after  the  first  day  of  April,  1864. 

Skc.  10.  That  if  any  bank  of  deposit  shall  give  its  depositors  the 
bonds  authorized  by  the  1st  section  of  this  act  in  exchange  for  their 
deposits,  and  specify  the  siime  on  the  bonds  by  some  distinctive  mark 
or  token,  to  be  agreed  upon  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  then 
the  said  depositor  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  the  amount  of  said  bonds 
in  treasury  notes  bearing  no  interest  and  outstanding  at  the  passage  of 
this  act :  provided,  the  said  bonds  are  presented  before  the  privilege  cif 
funding  said  notes  at  par  shall  cease,  as  herein  prescribed. 

Sec.  11.  That  all  treasury  notes  heretofore  issued  of  the  denomina- 
tion of  five  dollars  shall  continue  to  be  receivable  in  payment  of  public 
dues,  as  provided  by  law,  and  fundable  at  par  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  until  the  1st  daj'  of  July,  18B4,  east,  and  until  the  1st  day  of 
October,  180-1,  west,  of  the  Mistsissippi  river,  but  after  that  tipie  they 
shall  be  subject  to  a  tax  of  thirty  three  and  one-third  cents  on  every 
dollar  {iroraised  on  the  face  thereof — said  tax  to  attach  to  said  notes 
wherever  circulated,  and  said  notes  to  be  fundable  and  exchangeable 
for  newi  treasury  notes,  as  herein  provided,  subject  to  the  deduction  of 
said  tax. 

Sec.  12.  That  any  state  holding  treasury  notes,  received  before  the 
times  herein  fixed  for  faxing  said  notes,  shall  be  allowed  until  the  1st 
day  of  January,  1865,  to  fund  the  same  in  six  for  cent,  bonds  of  the 
Confederate  States,  payable  twenty  years  after  date,  and   the  interest 


payable  sciui-aunutilly.  But  all  treasury  notes  received  by  any  slate 
after  the  time  fixed  for  taxing  the  same,  as  aforesaid,  sball  be  held  to 
bavo  been  received  diminished  by  the  amount  of  said  tax.  The  dis- 
crimination betM-eou  the  notes  subject  to  the  tax  and  those  not  so  sub- 
ject, shall  be  left  to  the  good  faith  of  each  state,  and  the  certificate  of 
the  go.vornor  thereof  shall  iu  each  case  be  conclusive. 

Sec.  13.  That  treasury  notes  heretofore  issued,  bearing  interest  at 
the  rate  of  seven  dollars  and  thirty  ceutu  ou  the  hundred  dollars  per 
annum,  shall  uo  longer  bo  received  in  payment  of  public  dues,  bu( 
shall  bo  deemed  aud  considered  bonds  of  the  Confederate  States,  paya- 
ble two  years  after  a  ratification  of  a  trealj'  of  peace  with  the  United 
States,  bearing  the  rate  of  interest  specified  on  their  faoc,  payable  ou 
the  first  day  of  January  in  each  and  every  jear. 

Sec.  14.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  be,  aud  he  is  hereby  au- 
thoriiod,  in  case  the  exigouoios  of  the  government  should  require  it,  to 
pay  the  demand  of  any  public  creditor  whose  debt  may  bo' contracted 
after  the  paBsage  of  this  act,  willing  to  receive  the  same,  in  a  certificate 
of  indebtedness  to  be  issued  by  said  secretary,  in  such  form  as  he  may 
deem  proper,  paj'ablo  two  years  after  a  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace 
with  the  United  States,  bearing  interest  at  the  rate  of  six  per  cent,  per 
annum,  paj'able  semi-annually,  and  transferable  only  by  special  en- 
dorsement under  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  and  said  certificate  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation  in  princi- 
pal and  interest. 

Sec.  15.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  authorized  to  increase  the 
number  of  depositories  so  as  to  meet  the  requirements  of  this  act,  and 
with  that  view  to  employ  such  of  the  banks  of  the  several  states  as  he 
may  deem  expedient. 

Sec.  16.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  shall  forthwith  advertise  this 
act  in  such  newspapers  published  in  the  several  states,  and  by  such 
other  moans  as  shall  secure  immediate  publicity,  and  the  Secretary  of 
War  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  shall  each  cause  it  to  bo  publi.slied 
iu  general  orders  for  the  information  of  the  army  and  navy. 

Sec.  17.  The  forty-second  section  of  the  act  for  the  assessment  and 
collection  of  taxes,  approved  May  Ist,  18(53,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  is.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized  and  re- 
quired, upon  the  application  of  the  holder  of  any  call  certificate — which, 
by  the  first  section  of  the  act  "  to  provide  for  the  funding  and  further 
issue  of  treasury  notes,"  approved  March  2.3d,  1863,  was  required  to  bo 
"  tbere.iftor  deemed  to  bo  a  bond" — to  issue  to  such  holder  a  bond  there- 
for upon  the  terms  provided  by  said  act.  [Approved  lebruary  17, 
1864.] 

By  order.  t>.  COOPEK, 

fl  Ad-i'itovt  and  Tn»fif''tor-Ofp<rri'. 


2t> 

GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspectoe-General's  Ofpice, 

No.  22.  )  Richmond.  February  23, 1864. 

I.  .Clause  3,  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  75  (1803),  is  amend- 
ed by  adding  after  tLe  words  "as  clerks,"  the  words  "or  detailed 
men." 

II.  .Clause  3,  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  7  (current  series),  is 
amended  as  follows :  "  Persons  liable  to  military  service  may  volunteer 
in  or  be  assigned  to  any  company  of  artillery  in  service  on  the  16th  of 
April,  1802,  having  loss  than  eighty-four  men  upon  the  rolls." 

III.  .Non-commissione(k  oflSeers,  musicians,  and  privates,  detached 
from  their  commands,  by  furlough  or  detail,  for  a  longer  period  than 
thirty  days,  will  be  furnished  by  company  commanders  witli  but  one 
descriptive  list,  upon  which  the  soldier's  account  with  the  government 
(pay,  clothing,  and  commutation  for  furlough,  under  the  act  of  Con- 
gress, February  7,  1863)  will  be  stated.  Soldiers  in  hospitals,  not  fur- 
nished with  descriptive  lists  by  company  commanders  when  furloughed, 
will  have  such  lists  provided  by  the  surgeon  in  charge. 

Payments  made  will  bo  endorsed  on  the  descriptive  lists,  which  will 
be  returned  to  the  soldier,  and  transportation  furnished  in  kind  under 
the  act  cited  will  be  endorsed  on  the  descriptive  list,  and  also  on  the 
furlough. 

When  the  soldier  rejoins  his  command  the  descriptive  list  will  be  re- 
turned to  the  company  commander,  who  will,  after  recording  the  pay- 
ments made,  destroy  it. 

Quartermasters  arc  prohibited  from  paying  soldiers  absent,  as  sot 
forth  in  this  order,  from  their  commandii,  except  in  the  manner  herein 
ordered. 

IV.  .Persona  not  liable  to  conscription,  who  may  wish  to  volunteer, 
may  be  enrolled  as  voluntoero,  and  receive  transportation  to  the  com- 
pany they  Bclcct.  The  enrolment  will  be  communicated  by  the  enroll- 
ing officer  in  each  instance  to  the  company  commander. 

v..  Soldiers  who  furnish  an  able-bodied  recruit,  who  is  mustered  into 
service  under  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  paragraph,  are  entitled, 
when  on  furlough,  to  transportation  home  and  back. 

VI.  .The  provisions  of  paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  31  (1863), 
are  held  to  apply  to  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  entitled  to 
furlough  under  act  of  Congress  approved  February  7,  1863.  Re- 
ehctcd  offlcera  aic  uct  allowed  transportation,  or  couimutatiou  iu  lieu 


thereof,  under  any  of  the  acts  providing  furloughs,  bounty,  and  trans- 
portation to  persons  re-enlisted  or  mustered  into  the  service. 

In  each  case,  the  commutation  allowed  in  lieu  of  furlough  will  be 
paid  by  the  quartermaster  of  the  command  to  which  the  soldier  belongs, 
and  by  no  other  quartermaster. 

VII.. Chaplains  may  receive  the  rations  in  kind  allowed  them  by 
law,  or  commute  them  at  the  government  price. 

VIII.  .Tho  following  is  published  for  the  information  of  the  army : 

AN    ACT    TO    PROVIDE    FOR    RETIRING    OFFICERS    OF    THE    ARMY. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confi'dcraie  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  upon  the  recommendation 
of  any  general  commanding  a  department  or  any  army,  to  discharge 
from  service  any  nificer  of  the  Confederate  States  Army,  or  of  tho  Pro- 
visional Army  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  has  no  command,  and 
can  not  be  assigned  to  any  appropriate  duty,  or  who  is'  incompetent  or 
inefTicicnt,  or  who  may  be  absent  from  his  command  or  duty  without 
leave  :  provided,  that  any  otfieer  who  may  bo  discharged  for  incom- 
petency, inefficiency,  or  absence  from  his  command  or  duty  without 
leave,  shall  be  entitled  to  a  trial  before  an  examining  board,  under  e.\- 
isting  laws,  if  he  demands  it  of  the  commanding  genoral  within  thirty 
days  :*  provided,  further,  that  it  shall  not  extend  to  any  officer  who  is 
absent  on  account  of  his  captivity."     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

fix . .  All  officers,  whether  of  regular  or  provisional  army,  absent  from 
their  commands  and  not  on  duty,  as  well  as  those  who  are  without  as- 
signment to  duty  by  competent  authority,  will  report  their  address  by 
letter  to  this  office,  staling  tho  circumstances  of  their  absence  from 
duty,  and  if  unassigncJ,  when  and  where  last  on  duty. 
By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 

*  April  11, 1864. 

«  «  *  *  *  **.♦  41  * 

"  Tlie  proper  construction  of  tlie  act  of  Congrosa  is,  that  the  ofiBcer  diHchargcd 
may  have  a  trial  before  an  examining  buard,  within  thirty  days  after  the  order 
discharging  him  from  service  has  been  ptiblished."  S.  Coopee,  A.  and  I.  O. 

t  Sec  paragraph  VIII,  General  Orders,  No.  25,  c.  8. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,^  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  23.  j  Richmond,  February  24, 1864. 

General  Braxton  Bragg  is  assigned  to  duty  at  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment, and,  under  the  direction  of  the  President,  is  charged  with  the 
conduct  of  military  operations  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederacy. 
By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjtitant  and  Inpector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"j  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  24.  J  Richmond.  February  25, 1804. 

I.  .At  a  General  Court-martial  convened  at Russolville,  Tennessee, by 
General  Orders,  No.  21,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  ofSco,  of 
January  26,  1864,  was  arraigned  and  tried : 

.Brigadier-General  J.  B.  Robertson,  of  the  Provisional  Army,  on  the 
charge  of  conduct  highly  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military  disci- 
pline. 

Substance  of  specification. — The  use  of  language  (which  is  set  out) 
calculated  to  discourage  his  regimental  commanders,  and  weaken  their 
confidence  in  certain  movements  then  in  progress,  and  to  create  dis- 
trust in  the  minds  of  the  troops  as  to  the  result  of  the  campaign  in 
which  they  were  engaged. 

II.  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  find  the  accused  guilty  of  the  specification,  with  certain 
qualifications,  but  express  the  opinion  that  his  language  was  not  de- 
signed to  weaken  the  confidence  of  the  officers  to  whom  it  was  ad- 
dressed. They  also  find  him  guilty  of  the  charge,  except  the  word 
"  highly,"  and  sentence  him  to  be  reprimanded. 

III.. The  proceedings,  findings,  and  sentence  are  approved.  The 
absence  of  a  wrong  intent  does  not  change  the  obviously  mischievous 
tendency  of  the  remarks  complained  of.  Officers  can  not  be  too  care- 
ful in  the  expression  of  their  opinions  on  such  occasions;  and  this 
caution  is  the  more  incumbent  in  proportion  to  their  rank  and  influ- 
ence. Hence,  while  the  department  is  gratified  that  the  Court  has  felt 
warranted  in  acquitting  Brigadier-General  Robertson  of  improper  mo- 
tives, it  altogether  disapproves  his  conduct. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


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GENERAL  ORDEKS,"!  Adjutant  asd  Inspector-Geseral's  Office, 

No.  25.  J  Richmond.  February  29,  1864. 

I.  .The  following  acts  of  Congress  are  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army  : 

1.    JOINT  RESOHJTION    TO   DECLARE    THE    MEANING  OF  AN  ACT    ALLOWING 
HOSPITAL  ACC0,MMODATION9  TO  SICK  AND   WOUNHED  OFFICERS. 

Renoh'ed,  hy  the  Congrtss  of  the  Confederate  Stntee  of  America,  That 
the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  an  act  allowing  hospital  accommoda- 
tions to  sick  and  wounded  officers,  approved  the  tweuty-ninth  day  of 
April,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three,  were  to  cause  to  be  furnished 
not  only  medicines,  medical,  and  other  attendance  and  lodging,  but 
subsistence  also.     [Approved  February  13,  1864.] 

2.  AN  ACT  TO  INCREASE  THE  COMMUTATION  VALUE  OK  HOSPITAL  RATIONS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  the 
commutation  value  of  rations  of  the  sick  and  wounded,  and  of  all  em- 
ployees in  hospitals,  be  fixed  at  siich  rates,  not  to  exceed  two  and  a 
half  dollars,  as  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  designate.  [Approved 
F«brunry  15,  1864.] 

3.  AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  REGULATING  THE  GRANTING  OF  FURLOUGHS 

AND  DISCHARGES  IN  HOSPITALS,  APPROVED  MAY  1,  1863. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  an 
act  regulating  the  granting  of  furloughs  and  discharges  in  hospitals, 
approved  May  the  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three,  be  and  the 
same  is  hereby  so  amended  as  to  provide  that  the  period  of  disability 
therein  named  which  entitles  soldiers,  sick  and  wounded,  in  hospitals, 
to  furloughs,  shall  be  extended  to  sixty  daj's  or  upwards,  in  which  case 
the  board  of  examiners  may  grant  furloughs  for  sixty  days.  [Ap- 
proved February  17,  1861.] 

II.  .Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  69,  last  series,  is  so  amended 
that  soldiers,  sick  or  wounded,  in  hospitals,  ^ill  not  be  granted  fur  - 
loughs  unless  they  are  likely  to  remain  unfit  for  military  duty  for  sixty 
days :  in  which  case  they  may  bo  furloughed  for  that  period. 

III.. Hospital  funds  accrue  in  all  hospitals — regimental,  field,  or 
other  hospitals. 

IV.  .Paragraph  VIII,  General  Orders,  No.  8,  current  serie.^?,  is  here- 
by revoked.     Rations  in  kind  (such  as  aro  issued  to  soldiers  in  the 


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field)  will  bo  issued  to  all  attendants  in  field  hospitals,  and,  when  re- 
quired by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  to  the  female  attendants  in  general 
hospitals.  The  rations  of  all  male  attendants  in  general  hospitals  in 
cities  and  towns  will  be  commuted — the  amount  to  be  drawn  by  the 
sui'geon  in  charge,  and  expended  by  him  for  their  subsistence. 

*V.  .The  commuted  value  of  rations  of  the  sic^  and  wounded,  and  of 
all  employees  in  regimental,  field,  or  other  hospitals,  will  be,  until 
further  orders,  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

t  VI. .  General  Orders.  No.  71,  last  series,  is  amended  as  follows  :  "  For 
officers,  sick  or  wounded,  in  hospitals,  rations  will  be  drawn,  or,  when 
required  by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  their  value  commuted  at  the  price 
fixed  in  the  preceding  paragraph." 

VII.  .The  last  two  preceding  paragraphs  will  not  have  efl'ect  in  the 
trans-Missisiippi  department. 

VIII.. The  following  order  is  published  in  connection  with  para- 
graphs VIII  and  IX,  General  Orders,  No.  22  (1864) : 

OflScers  in  the  trans-Mississippi  department,  belonging  to  commands 
east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  will  immediately  return  to  their  respective 
commands.  In  cases  where  such  officers  have  no  command,  or  are  un- 
assigned  to  any  by  proper  authority,  action  under  the  act  of  Congress 
to  provide  for  retiring  officers  of  the  army,  approved  February  17,  ISC-t, 
will  bo  taken  by  the  general  commanding  that  department,  who  will 
also  adopt  proper  measures  to  carry  into  effect  these  orders. 

IX.. Supplies  of  provisions  in  transitu  to  arsenals,  armories,  and 
ordnance  depots,  for  the  use  of  operatives,  under  the  order  of  command- 
ing officers  of  the  same,  will  not  be  interfered  with  by  officers  of  other 
departments. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "|  Adjutant  and  Inspectou-Geneual's  Officb, 

No.  26.  )  RiCHMCVD,  March  1,  ISei. 

The  following  act  of  Congress  and  regulations  are  published  for  the 
information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned  : 

*  Increased  by  act  of  June  14,  1864.    See  G.  0.  No.  53, 1  [25],  c.  s. 
■f  Accommodation  allowed.     See  G.  0.  No.  53,  1  [18],  c.  s. 


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AN    ACT   TO    OK«ANIZI',    VOIICKS    TO    SKRVK    nUIUNQ     I'HK     WAIt. 

The  CoTigrc^e  of  the  Coii/edrratr  Statce  of  America  do  enact,  That,  from 
ftnd  after  the  pa'^sage  of  thin  act,  all  white  men,  residents  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  between  the  agoa  of  aerentoen  and  fifty,  shall  be  in  the 
military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  for  the  war. 

Sec.  2.  That  all  the  peranna  aforesaid,  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 
and  forty-five,  now  in  service,  shall  be  retained,  during  the  present  war 
with  the  United  States,  in  the  same  regiments,  battalions,  and  companies 
to  which  thoy  belong  at  the  passage  of  this  act,  with  the  same  organiza- 
tion and  officers,  unless  regularly  transferred  or  discharged  in  accord- 
ance with  the  laws  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the  army  : 
jyrovided,  that  companies  from  one  state,  organized  against  their  con- 
sent expressed  at  the  time,  with  regiments  or  battalions  from  another 
state,  shall  have  the  privilege  of  being  transferred  to  organizations  of 
troops  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service  from  the  state  in  which  said  com- 
panies were  raised ;  and  the  soldiers  from  one  state  in  companies  from 
another  state  shall  be  allowed,  if  they  desire  it,  a  transfer  to  organiza- 
tions from  their  own  state  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service. 

Sec.  3.  That,  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  from  the  first  day  of 
April  next,  a  bounty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  in  a  six  per  cent,  govern- 
ment bond,  which  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized 
to  issue,  shall  be  paid  to  every  non-commissioned  officer,  musician,  and 
private  who  shall  tben  be  in  the  service,  or,  in  the  event  of  his  death 
previous  to  the  period  of  such  payment,  then  to  the  person  or  persons 
who  would  be  entitled  by  law  to  receive  tho  arrearages  of  his  pay  ;  but 
no  one  shall  be  entitled  to  the  bounty  herein  provided  who  shall,  at  any 
time  during  the  period  of  six  mouths  next  after  the  said  first  day  of 
April,  be  ab.sent  from  his  command  witlimit  leave. 

Sec.  4.  That  no  person  shall  be  relieved  from  the  operation  of  this  act 
by  reason  of  having  been  heretofore  diseh.ar^^ed  from  the  army,  where 
no  disability  now  exists,  nor  shall  those  who  have  furnished  substitutes 
be  any  longer  exempted  by  rea.^on  thereof:  provided,  that  no  person  here- 
tofore exempted  on  .account  of  religions  opinions,  and  who  has  paid  the 
tax  levied  to  relieve  him  from  service,  shall  be  required  to  render  mili- 
tary service  under  this  act. 

*Skc.  5.  That  all  white  male  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  be- 
tween tho  ages  of  seventeen  and  eighteen  and  forty-five  and  fifty  years, 
shall  enroll  themselves,  at  such  times  and  places,  and  under  such  regu- 
lations, as  thc^Prosident  may  prescribe,  the  time  allowed  not  being  less 
than  thirty  ilays  for  those  east,  and  sixty  days  foj-  those  west,  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi river;  and  any  person  who  shall  fail  so  to  enroll  himself,  with- 

♦Time  extended,  in  certain  routiogency,  by  act  of  June  10,  lh(U.  See  G.  0. 
No.  5n.  I  [19\  c.  8. 


out  a  reasonable  excuse  tberefor,  to  be  judged  of  by  the  President,  shall 
be  placed  in  service  in  the  field  for  the  war,  in  the  same  manner  as 
though  he  were  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five  :  provided, 
that  the  persons  mentioned  in  this  section  shall  constitute  a  reserve  for 
state  defence  and  detail  duty,  and  shall  not  bo  required  to  perform  ser- 
vice out  of  the  state  in  which  they  reside. 

Sec.  6.  That  all  persons  required  by  the  fifth  section  of  this  act  to 
enroll  themselves  may,  within  thirty  days  after  the  passage  hereof,  east 
of  the  Mississippi  river,  and  within  sixty  days  if  west  of  said  river,  form 
themselves  into  voluntary  organizations  of  companies,  battalions,  or  regi- 
ments, and  elect  their  own  officers — said  organizations  to  conform  to  the 
existing  law;  and  having  so  organized,  to  tender  their  services  as  vol- 
unteers during  the  war  to  the  President ;  and  if  such  organizations  shall 
furnish  proper  muster-rolls,  as  now  required,  and  deposit  a  copy  thereof 
with  the  enrolling  ofiicer  of  their  district  (which  shall  be  equivalent  to 
enrolment),  they  may  be  accepted  as  minute-men  for  service  in  such 
state,  but  in  no  event  to  be  taken  out  of  it.  Those  who  do  not  so  vol- 
unteer and  organize  shall  enroll  themselves  as  before  provided,  and  may, 
by  the  President,  be  required  to  assemble  at  places  of  rendezvous,  and 
be  formed  into  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments,  under  regulations 
to  be  prescribed  by  him,  and  shall  have  the  right  to  elect  their  compa- 
ny and  regimental  officers ;  and  all  troops  organized  under  this  act  for 
state  defence  shall  be  entitled,  while  in  actual  service,  to  the  same  pay 
and  allowances  as  troops  now  in  the  field. 

Sec.  7.  That  any  person  who  shall  fail  to  attend  at  the  place  of  ren- 
dezvous, as  required  by  the  authority  of  the  President,  without  a  suffi- 
cient excuse,  to  be  judged  of  by  him,  shall  be  liable  to  be  placed  in  ser- 
vice in  the  field  for  the  war  as  if  he  were  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 
and  forty-five  years. 

Sec.  8.  That  hereafter  the  duties  of  provost  and  hospital  guards  and 
clerks,  of  clerks,  guards,  agents,  employees,  or  laborers  in  the  Commis- 
sary's  and  Quartermaster's  departments,  in  the  Ordnance  department, 
and  clerks  and  employees  of  navy  agents,  as  also  in  the  execution  of 
the  enrolment  acts,  and  all  similar  duties,  shall  be  performed  by  per- 
sons who  are  within  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five  years,  and  who, 
by  the  report  of  a  board  of  army  surgeons,  shall  be  reported  as  unable 
to  perform  active  service  in  the  field,  but  capable  of  performing  some  of 
the  above-named  duties,  specifying  which  ;  and  when  those  persons  shall 
have  been  assigned  to  those  duties  as  far  as  practicable,  the  President 
shall  detail  or  assign  to  their  performance  such  bodies  of  troops  or  indi- 
viduals, required  to  be  enrolled  under  the  fifth  section  of  this  act,  as  may 
be  needed  for  the  discharge  of  such  duties  :  provided,  that  persons  be- 
tween the  ages  of  seventeen  and  eighteen  shall  not  be  assigned  to  these 
duties  :  provided,  further,  that  nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  be  so 


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construed  as  to  prevent  the  President  from  detailing  artisans,  mechan- 
ics, or  persons  of  scientific  skill  to  perform  indispensable  duties  in  the 
departments  or  bureaus  herein  mentioned. 

Sec.  9.  That  any  quartermaster  or  assistant  quartermaster,  commis- 
sary or  assistant  commissary  (other  than  those  serving  with  regiments 
and  brigades  in  the  field),  or  officer  in  the  ordnance  bureau,  or  navy 
agent,  or  provost  marshal,  or  officer  in  the  conscript  service,  who  shall 
hereafter  employ  or  retain  in  his  emplo.vment  any  person  in  any  of  their 
said  departments  or  bureaus,  or  in  any  of  the  duties  mentioned  in  the 
eighth  section  of  this  act,  in  violation  of  the  provisions  hereof,  shall,  on 
conviction  thereof  by  a  court-martial-  or  military  court,  be  cashiered  : 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  department  or  district  commander,  upon 
proof  by  the  oath  of  any  credible  person,  that  any  such  ofl5ccr  h;is  vio- 
lated this  provision,  immediately  to  relieve  such  ofiBcer  from  duty,  and 
said  commander  shall  take  prompt  measures  to  have  him  tried'  for  such 
offence  ;  and  anj'  commander  as  aforesaid  failing  to  perform  the  duties 
enjoined  by  this  section  shall,  upon  being  duly  convicted  thereof,  be 
dismissed  from  the  service. 

Sec.  10.  That  all  laws  granting  exemptions  from  military  service  be 
and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed,  and  hereafter  Hone  shall  be  exempted 
except  the  following  : 

I.  .All  who  shall  be  held  unfit  for  military  service,  under  rules  to  be 
prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

II.  .The  Vice-President  of  the  Confederate  States  ;  the  members  and 
officers  of  Congress  and  of  the  several  state  legislatures,  and  such  other 
Confederate  and  state  officers  as  the  President  or  the  governors  of  the 
respective  states  may  certify  to  be  necessary  for  the  proper  adminis- 
tration of  the  Confederate  or  state  governments,  as  the  case  may  be. 

III.  .Every  minister  of  religion  authorized  to  preach  according  to  the 
rules  of  his  church,  and  who,  at  the  passage  of  this  act,  shall  be  regu- 
larly employed  in  the  discharge  of  his  ministerial  duties  ;  surporinten- 
dents  and  physicians  of  asylums  of  the  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind,  and  of  the 
insane  ;  one  editor  for  each  newspaper  being  published  at  the  time  of 
the  passage  of  this  act,  and  such  employees  ns  said  editor  may  certify 
on  oath  to  be  indispensable  to  the  publication  of  such  newspaper;  the 
public  printer  of  the  Confederate  and  state  governments,  and  such  jour- 
neymen printers  as  the  said  public  printer  shall  certify  on  oath  to  bo 
indispensable  to  perform  the  public  printing;  one  skilled  apothecary  in 
each  apothecary  store,  who  was  doing  business  as  such  apothecary  on 
the  tenth  day  of  October,  eisjhtecn  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  has  con- 
tinued said  business,  without  intermission,  since  that  period:  all  phy- 


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siciaus  over  the  age  of  thirty  years  who  now  are,  aud  for  the  last  sevou 
years  have  been,  in  the  actual  and  regular  practice  of  their  profession — 
but  the  term  physician  shall  not  include  dentists  ;  all  presidents  aud 
teachers  of  colleges,  theological  seminaries,  academies,  and  schools,  who 
have  been  regularly  engaged  as  such  for  two  years  next  before  the  pas- 
sage of  this  act:  provided,  that  the  benefit  of  this  exemption  shall  ex- 
tend to  those  teachers  only  whose  schools  are  composed  of  twenty  stu- 
dents or  more  ;  all  superintendents  of  public  hospitals  established  by 
law  before  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  such  physicians  and  nurses 
therein  as  such  superintendent  shall  certify  on  oath  to  be  indispensable 
to  the  proper  and  elficient  management  thereof. 

IV.  .There  shall  be  exempt  one  person  as  overseer  or  agriculturist  on 
each  farm  or  plantation  upon  which  there  arc  now,  and  were,  upon  the 
first  day  of  January  last,  fifteen  able-bodied  field-hands  between  the 
ages  of  sixteen  and  fifty,  upon  the  following  conditions  :*  1.  This 
exemption  shall  only  be  granted  in  cases  in  which  there  is  no  white 
male  adult  on  the  farm  or  plantation  not  liable  to  military  service,  nor 
uuless  the  person  claiming  the  exemption  was,  on  the  first  day  of  Janu- 
ary, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  either  the  owner  and  manager,  or 
overseer  of  said  plantation  ;  but  in  no  case  shall  more  than  one  person 
be  exempted  for  one  farm  or  plantation.  2.  Such  person  shall  first  exe- 
cute a  bond,  payable  to  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  in  such  form, 
and  with  such  security,  and  in  such  penalty,  as  the  Secretary  of  War 
may  prescribe,  conditioned  that  he  will  deliver  to  the  government,  at 
some  railroad  depot,  or  such  other  place  or  places  as  may  be  designated 
by  the  Secretary  of  War,  within  twelve  months  then  next  ensuing,  one 
hundred  pounds  of  bacon,  or,  at  the  election  of  the  government,  its 
equivalent  in  pork,  and  one  hundred  pounds  of  net  beef  (said  beef  to  be 
delivered  on  foot),  for  each  able-bodied  slave  on  the  farm  or  pl.-intation 
within  the  above  said  ages,  whether  said  slaves  be  worked  in  the  field 
or  not;  which  said  bacon  or  pork  and  beef  shall  be  paid  for  by  the  gov- 
ernment at  the  prices  fixed  by  the  commissioners  of  the  state  under  the 
Impressment  act:  jyroi-ided,  that  when  the  person  thus  exempted  shall 
produce  satisfactory  evidence  that  it  has  been  impossible  for  him,  by 
the  exercise  of  proper  diligence,  to  furnish  the  amount  of  meat  thus 
contracted  for,  and  leave  an  adequate  supply  for   the  subsistence  of 

♦Decision  of  tho  War  department.    April  29,  1864. 

********** 

"  Details  from  the  army  to  superintend  plantations  do  not  come  within  the  pur- 
view of  tlic  '  act  to  organize  forces  to  serve  during  tho  war. '  " 

By  order  of  tiie  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General, 
(Signed)  *  Jno.  Withers,  A.  A.  G. 


;{5 

those  living  on  said  farm  or  plantation,  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  di- 
rect ft  commutation  of  tho  same  to  the  extent  of  two-thirds  thereof  in 
grain  or  other  provisions,  to  be  delivered  by  such  person  as  aforesaid, 
at  equivalent  rates.  3.  Such  person  shall  further  bind  himself  to  sell 
the  marketable  surplus  of  provisions  and  grain  now  on  band,  and  which 
he  may  raise  from  year  to  year,  while  his  exemption  continues,  to  the 
government,  or  to  the  families  of  soldiers,  at  prices  fixed  by  tho  commis- 
sioners of  the  state  under  tho  Impressment  act :  provided,  that  any  per- 
son exempted  as  aforesaid  shall  be  entitled  to  a  credit  of  twenty-five 
per  cent,  on  any  amount  of  meat  which  he  may  deliver  within  three 
months  from  tho  passage  of  this  act:  provided,  further,  that  persons 
coming  within  the  provisions  of  this  exemption  shall  not  be  deprived 
thereof  by  reason  of  having  been  enrolled  since  the  first  day  of  Febru- 
ary, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four. 

In  addition  to  the  foregoing  exemptions,  the  Secretary  of  War,  under 
the  direction  of  the  President,  may  e.xempt  or  detail  such  other  person 
as  he  may  be  satisfied  ought  to  bo  exempted  on  account  of  public  ne- 
cessity, and  to  insui'e  the  production  of  grain  and  provisions  for  the 
army  and  the  families  of  soldiers.  He  may  also  grant  exemptions  or 
details,  on  such  terms  as  he  may  prescribe,  to  such  overseers,  farmers, 
or  planters  as  he  may  be  satisfied  will  be  more  useful  to  the  country  in 
the  pursuits  of  agriculture  than  in  the  military  service :  provided,  that 
such  exemptions  shall  cease  whenever  the  farmer,  planter,  or  overseer 
shall  fail  diligently  to  employ',  in  good  faith,  his  own  skill,  capital,  and 
labor  exclusively  in  the  production  of  grain  and  provisions,  to  be  sold 
to  the  government  and  the  families  of  soldiers  at  prices  not  exceeding 
those  fixed  at  the  time  for  like  articles  by  the  commissioners  of  the 
state  under  the  Impressment  act. 

V.  .The  president,  treasurer,  auditor,  and  superintendent  of  any  rail- 
road company  engaged  in  transportation  for  the  government,  and  such 
officers  and  employees  thereof  as  the  president  or  superintendent  shall 
certify,  on  oath,  to  bo  indispensable  to  the  eflScient  operation  of  such 
railroad :  provided,  that  the  number  of  persons  exempted  by  this  act  on 
any  railroad  shall  not  exceed  one  for  each  mile  of  such  road  in  actual 
use  for  military  transportation,  and  said  exempts  shall  be  reported  by 
name  and  description,  with  tho  names  of  any  who  may  have  left  the 
employment  of  said  company,  or  who  may  ce.ase  to  be  indispensable  to 
the  clKcieut  operation  of  its  road,  at  least  once  a  mouth,  to  the  Secretary 
of  War,  or  such  ofiicer  as  he  may  designate  for  that  purpose;  and  jtro- 
vided,  further,  that  such  president  or  superintendent  shall,  in  eaoh  such 
monthly  report,  certify  on  oath  that  no  person  liable  to  military  ser- 
vice has  been  employed  by  hi^  company  since  the  passage  of  this  act, 


in  any  position  in  which  it  was  practicable  to  employ  one  not  liable  to 
military  sorvice  and  capable  of  performing  efficiently  the  duties  of  such 
position.  And  in  cases  where  railroads  have  fallen  into  the  hands  of 
the  enemy,  and  a  portion  of  the  rolling  stock  of  such  roads  is  being 
used  on  other  roads  not  in  the  enemy's  hands,  the  president  and  super- 
intendent of  said  first-named  roads  shall  be  exempt. 

VI.. That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  as  repealing 
the  act  approved  April  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-thi-ee, 
entitled  an  act  to  exempt  contractors  for  carrying  the  mails  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  and  the  drivers  of  post-coaches  and  hacks,  from  mili- 
tary service:  provided,  that  the  exemptions  granted  under  this  act  shall 
only  continue  while  the  persons  exempted  are  actually  engaged  in  their 
respeetive  pursuits  or  occupations. 

Sec.  11.  That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  grant 
details,  under  general  rules  and  regulations  to  be  issued  by  the  War  de- 
partment, either  from  persons  between  forty-five  and  fifty  years  of  age, 
or  from  the  army  in  the  field,  in  all  cases  when,  in  his  judgment,  jus- 
tice, equity,  and  necessity  require  such  details,  and  he  may  revoke  such 
orders  of  details  whenever  he  thinks  proper  :  provided,  that  the  power 
herein  granted  to  the  President  to  make  details  and  exemptions  shall 
not  be  construed  to  authorize  the  exemption  or  detail  of  any  contractor 
for  furnishing  supplies  of  any  kind  to  the  government,  by  reason  of  said 
contract,  unless  the  head  or  secretary  of  the  department  making  such 
contract  shall  certify  that  the  personal  services  of  said  contractor  are 
indispensable  to  the  execution  of  the  contract:  provided,  further,  that 
when  any  such  contractor  shall  fail  diligently  and  faithfully  to  proceed 
with  the  execution  of  such  contract,  his  exemption  or  detail  shall  cease. 

Sec.  12.  That  in  appointing  local  boards  of  surgeons  for  the  exami- 
nation of  persons  liable  to  military  service,  no  member  composing  the 
same  shall  be  appointed  from  the  county  or  enrolling  district  in  which 
they  are  required  to  make  such  examination.  [Approved  February  17, 
1864.] 

I.  .The  superintendence  of  the  measures  necessary  for  the  enrolment, 
examination,  enlistment,  assignment,  detail,  and  exemption  of  all  per- 
sons not  belonging  to  the  army,  in  the  states  east  of  the  Mississippi 
river,  who  are  placed  in  the  military  service  by  the  above  act  of  Con- 
gress, is  devolved  on  the  Bureau  of  Conscription  ;  and  all  officers  and 
persons  assigned  or  to  be  employed  in  the  conscription  service,  or  upon 
other  duty  imposed  upon  the  bureau,  will  be  subject  to  its  orders,  and 
their  various  acts  and  decisions  may  be  revised  therein,  under  the  orders 
and  instructions  of  the  War  department. 


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II.  .The  Bureau  of  Conscription,  under  the  orders  of  the  department, 
will  proceed  to  organize,  in  every  state,  efficient  agencies  for  the  per- 
formance of  the  necessary  duties  imposed  by  this  order.  These  agen- 
cies will  consist  of  a  commandant  of  conscripts  in  each  state,  a  suitable 
number  of  camps  of  instruction,  under  the  charge  of  commanders,  and 
enrolling  oflicefs,  and  drill-masters,  to  be  appointed  or  assigned  under 
acts  of  Congress  or  the  orders  of  the  War  department.  The  Bureau  of 
Conscription  will,  by  instructions  to  these  officers,  designate  the  duties 
that  they  shall  perform,  the  reports  that  they  shall  make,  and  will 
determine  the  effect  of  their  certificates  and  other  official  evidence  they 
may  be  required  to  give. 

In  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  making  exemptions  and  details, 
the  Bureau  of  Conscription  maj',  from  time  to  time,  organize  within  tho 
states  temporary  boards  to  obtain  information  and  advice  relative  to  tho 
necessity  or  propriety  of  exemptions  or  details  to  be  granted  under  tho 
provisions  of  the  above  act  of  Congress. 

III.  .AH  applications  for  exemption  or  detail  under  this  act,  except  as 
hereafter  excepted,  and  except  such  details  as  are  required  for  the  ser- 
vice of  any  of  the  military  bureaus,  or  for  service  in  any  of  tho  depart- 
ments of  the  government,  will  be  made  in  writing  to  the  enrolling  officer 
of  the  api)ropriate  county  or  district,  and  be  supported  by  the  affidavit 
of  the  applicant  and  other  testimony  under  oath.  The  enrolling  officer 
will  endorse  bis  opinion  on  each  and  every  application,  and  transmit  it 
to  tho  commandant  of  conscripts  for  his  approval,  with  a  certificate  or 
approval  If  the  enrolling  officer  approve  the  application,  he  may  grant 
a  certificate  of  exemption  for  a  period  not  exceeding  sixty  days,  which 
shall  remain  in  force  for  that  period  unless  countermanded  by  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts.  Every  applicant  for  exemption  or  detail,  whoso 
claim  shall  bo  refused  by  the  enrolling  officer  and  commandant  of  con- 
scripts, will  be  allowed  an  appeal  to  tho  Bureau  of  Conscription  and  the 
War  department.  But  until  the  application  has  been  made  to  the  en- 
rolling Officer  and  the  commandant  of  conscripts,  applications  will  not 
be  entertained  by  the  War  department. 

IV.. Applications  for  exemptions  to  insure  tho  production  of- provi- 
sions for  the  army  and  families  of  soldiers,  and  for  the  exemption  of  over- 
seers, farmers,  or  planters,  or  because  their  services  will  be  more  useful 
to  the  public  as  agriculturists  than  in  the  military  service,  or  of  persons 
between  the  ages  of  45  and  50,  because  justice,  equity,  or  necessity  re- 
quire the  detail,  or  because  their  employment  is  neocssarj'  to  the  public, 
will  be  m.ade  to  the  enrolling  officer  in  writing,  with  an  affidavit  of  the 
person  making  it,  and  arcompauied  with  proof  of  one  or  more  credible 


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witnesses.  The  application  should  show  with  precision  the  conditions 
of  the  alleged  private  or  public  necessity,  advantage,  convenience,  jus- 
tice, or  equity.  Among  the  facts  to  be  stated  are  the  abilitj'  of  the  party 
to  produce  the  provision  or  supply  the  want  or  requirement,  the  con- 
dition of  the  family,  whether  any  of  the  members  belong  to  the  army, 
and  whether  some  person,  not  liable  to  military  service,'  can  not  be  pro- 
cured to  perform  the  service.  If  the  decision  of  the  local  enrolling  offi- 
cer be  favorable,  he  will  transmit  the  same  to  the  commandant  of  con- 
scripts for  approval,  who  may,  if  he  approve,  grant  an  exemption  or  de- 
tail for  sixty  days,  and  endorse  his  action  thereon,  which  will  be  transmit- 
ted to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription.  The  bureau  will  prepare  special  in- 
structions to  guide  the  action  of  those  officers  in  reference  to  this  class 
of  cases. 

V.  .Applications  for  certificates  of  exemption  under  the  3d  article, 
10th  section  of  the  act  aforesaid,  and  6th  article  of  the  same  section,  will 
be  made  in  all  cases  to  the  local  enrolling  officer,  and  his  certificate  must 
be  appi'oved  by  the  congressional  district  enrolling  officer.  Applications 
for  exemption  under  the  5th  article  of  the  10th  section,  relative  to  the 
exemption  of  officers  and  agents  employed  on  railroads,  may  be  made 
directly  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for  the  state,  who  will  grant 
the  certificate  of  exemption  authorized  by  law,  upon  compliance  with  the 
conditions  contained  in  the  act  of  Congress  by  the  officers  therein 
mentioned. 

VI.  .The  attention  of  all  officers  of  the  government,  and  especially  of 
those  belonging  to  the  military  departments  mentioned  therein,  is  di- 
rected to  the  language  and  purport  of  the  8th  section  of  the  act  of  Con- 
gress above  recited.  Congress  has  manifested,  in  various  enactments, 
the  policy  to  withdraw  from  the  civil  service  all  persons  capable  of  per- 
forming duty  in  the  field,  and  this  section  of  the  act  is  an  emphatic  dec- 
laration of  that  intention,  aceompanied  with  a  severe  penalty  to  be 
imposed  upon  the  officer  who  may  frustrate  it.  The  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion will  proceed  to  enroll  for  duty  all  persons  who  may  be  so  employed. 
But,  to  prevent  the  inconvenience  and  disorder  that  would  follow  from 
the  instantaneous  execution  of  the  law,  details  may  bo  granted  until  the 
10th  day  of  April  next,  for  such  of  those  persons  as  the  head  of  any  de- 
partment, or  the  chief  of  any  bureau,  or  the  principal  officer  of  the  same 
in  any  state,  shall  certify  to  be  necessary  for  that  time  to  carry  on  the 
business  in  which  they  are  employed.  In  the  meantime,  it  is  made  the 
duty  of  the  officers  controlling  this  class  of  persons  to  substitute,  as  far 
as  practicable,  persons  who  are  designated  in  this  act  as  proper  to  fill 
such  employments,  for  those  that  aremade  liable  to  service  by  the  act. 

VII. .  Conscripts  unfit  for  duty  in  the  field,  but  capable  of  performing 


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other  duties  named  in  the  8th  section  of  the  act  recited,  will  bo  received 
and  recommended  accordingly  bj  the  board  of  examiners  for  conscripts, 
who,  in  their  reports,  will  state  distinctly  for  what  service,  or  for  which 
department  of  the  armj',  such  conscripts  are  best  fitted;  and  comman- 
dants of  conscripts  will  assign  them  in  accordance  with  such  recommeu- 
dation,  or,  failing  to  do  this,  will  report  for  assignment,  through  the 
Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  the  chief  or  head  of  the  department  in  which 
they  hare  been  recommended  for  service,  the  names  of  such  conscripts. 
All  certificates  of  exemption  for  disability  will  be  signed  by  the  examin- 
ing board,  and  be  approved  by  the  enrolling  oflBcer  of  the  congressional 
district ;  and  when  the  certificate  sets  forth  that  the  disability  is  decided 
and  permanent,  it  will  exempt  the  party  from  molestation  by  enrolling 
oflScers,  unless  otherwise  ordered  from  the  Bureau  of  Conscription. 

VIII.  .The  examining  boards  will  forward  one  copy  of  the  monthly 
report  of  conscripts  examined,  through  the  enrolling  officer  of  the  con- 
gressional district,  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts,  who  will  refer  the 
same,  with  remarks,  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription.  The  boards  will 
also  forward  one  copy  direct  to  the  Surgeon-General. 

IX.. Medical  officers  and  employed  physicians  on  examining  boards 
for  conscripts  will  not  bo  assigned  to  congressional  districts  of  which 
they  are  resident.  The  employed  physicians  will  receive  the  pay  and 
allowances  of  assistant  surgeons. 

X.  .Medical  officers  detailed  for  duty  on  examining  boards  for  con- 
scripts will  bo  directed  to  report  for' orders  to  the  commandant  of  con- 
scripts of  states. 

XI.. Besides  the  ofliecrs  of  tho  Confederate  and  .°tatc  govcrumonts 
particularly  named  iu  tho  act  of  Congress,  the  oflicora  of  the  government 
of  the  Confederate  States,  whoso  nominations  have  been  mado  by  the 
President  and  confirmel  by  tho  Senate,  or  who  have  boon  appointed  by 
the  judges  of  the  district  courts  under  the  authority  confided  by  any 
act  of  Congress,  will  be  exempted  from  military  service  until  further 
orders.  Also  the  judges  or  justices  of  any  supreme,  superior,  or  circuit 
court  of  any  state;  also  the  judges  of  probate,  clerk  of  any  court  of 
record,  ordinary,  sheriOf,  one  tax-collector  in  each  county,  and  recorder 
of  deeds  and  wills,  if  there  be  such  an  officer  existing  by  law,  and  such 
other  officers  of  the  state  provided  by  law  as  the  goveruor  shall  certify 
to  be  necessary  to  the  proper  atlministration  of  the  state  government. 

XII.. All  persons  who  have  been  exempted  on  account  of  religious 
faith,  under  act  of  Congress  approved  11th  of  October,  1862,  and  who 


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have  paid  the  tax  of  $500  therein  provided  for,  will  be  exempt  from  en- 
rolment in  the  military  service. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genekal's  Office, 

No.  27.  )  Richmond,  March  2, 1864. 

I.. The  attention  of  the  army  is  called  to  the  2d  and  3d  sections  of 
the  act  of  Congress  entitled  an  act  to  organize  forces  to  servo  during 
the  war,  approved  17th  of  February,  1864: 

Sec.  2.  That  all  the  persons  aforesaid,  between  the  ages  of  eigh- 
teen and  forty-five,  now  in  service,  shall  be  retained  during  the  present 
war  with  the  United  States  in  the  same  regiments,  battalions,  and  com- 
panies to  which  they  belong  at  the  passage  of  this  act,  with  the  same 
organization  and  oflicers,  unless  regularly  transferred  or  discharged  in 
accordance  with  the  laws  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the 
army  :  provided,  that  companies  from  one  state,  organized  against  their 
consent,  expressed  at  the  time,  with  regiments  or  battalions  from 
another  state,  shall  have  the  privilege  of  being  transferred  to  organi- 
zations of  troops  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service  from  the  states  in 
which  said  companies  Were  raised;  and  the  soldiers  from  one  state 
in  companies  from  another  state  shall  be  allowed,  if  they  desire  it,  a 
transfer  to  organizations  from  their  own  stale  in  the  same  arm  of  the 
service. 

Sec.  3.  That,  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  from  the  first  day 
of  April  next,  a  bounty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  in  a  six  per  centum 
government  bond,  which  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby 
authorized  to  issue,  shall  be  paid  to  every  non-commissioned  offi- 
cer, musician,  and  private  who  shall  then  be  in  the  service,  or,  in  the 
event  of  his  death  previous  to  the  period  of  such  payment,  then  to  the 
person  or  persons  who  would  be  entitled  by  law  to  receive  the  arrear- 
age of  his  pay ;  but  no  one  shall  be  entitled  to  the  bounty  herein  pro- 
vided who  shall,  at  any  time  during  the  period  of  six  months  ^ext 
after  the  said  first  day  of  April,  be  absent  from  his  command  without 
leave. 

II.  .The  generals  of  departments  will  ascertain  whether  there  be  in 
their  respective  departments  any  company  or  companies  from  one  state 
ascociat^  with  companies  belonging  to  another  state,  either  iu  battal- 


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ions  or  rcjjiincnts,  wlio  were  placed  iu  such  organizations  against  llicir 
consent  expressed  at  the  time,  and  will  report  the  same  to  the  A<lju- 
tant  and  Inspector-General  as  soon  as  practicable,  with  n  recommenda- 
tion that  they  be  transferred,  if  they  now  desire  it,  to  some  organization 
of  troops  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service  from  the  state  in  which  the 
said  companies  were  raised. 

III.  .Measures  will  be  taken  by  the  commanding  generals  of  depart- 
ments to  place  in  companies  of  the  same  arm  of  the  service  in  which 
they  are  serving,  raised  iu  states  to»which  they  respectively  belong,  the 
privates  who  are  serving  in  companies  raised  in  other  states.  This 
privilege  will  be  freely  granted  to  all  privates  making  the  application. 
A  private  will  be  considered  as  belonging  to  that  state  in  which  he 
was  residing  for  twelve  months  prior  to  his  enlistment.  Measures  will 
also  be  taken  to  have  proper  rolls  prepared  on  the  first  of  April  prox- 
imo, or  as  soon  after  as  practicable,  and  returned  to  the  oflice  of  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  so  as  to  secure  to  all  the  persons  desig- 
nated in  the  3d  section  of  the  above  recited  act  the  benefits  conferred 
by  it. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiitaiit  and  Inspector-General. 

Decision  of  the  War  department,  May  12,  1864. 

"  Transfers  are  only  made  to  the  same  line  of  the  service  to  which  the 
applicant  belongs. 

By  order  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 

(Signed)  JNO.  WITHERS,  .1.  A.  G. 


GENERAL  0RDERS,1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qensral's  Offick, 

No.  28.  j  Richmond,  March  4.  ISM. 


1.. Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  13  (1864),  is  thu.s  amended  : 
"  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will,  upon  the  requisition 

of  company  commanders,  issue  clothing  directly  to  soldiers,  and  take 

their  individual  receipts  therefor." 

II.. Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  67  (1863),  is  amended  as  fel- 
lows : 

"If  any  cavalryman  'shall  not  keep  himself  provided  with  n  service- 
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able  liorse,  he  shall  serve  on  foot/  and  be  transferred  to  iiny  regiment 
of  infantry  from  the  state  from  which  he  volunteered  or  was  conscribed, 
that  the  department  commander  may  order." 

*HT.  .The  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army  : 

A.\  ACT  TO  ALLOW  COMMISSIONED  OFFICEKS  OF  THE  ARMY  RATIONS,  AND 
THE  PRIVILEGE  OF  PURCHASING  CLOTHING  FROM  TIIR  QUARTERMAS- 
TER'S DKPARTJrF.NT. 

,  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That, 
from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  all  commissioned  officers  of  the 
armies,  while  on  duty  in  the  field,  or  in  the  naval  service,  while  nfloat 
of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  entitled  to  one  ration  in  kiud  each, 
iu  quantity  and  quality  the  same  as  are  now  allowed  by  law  to  pri- 
vates, and  shall  draw  and  receive  the  same  under  such  regulations  as 
may  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

Sec.  2.  All  commissioned  ofTicers  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate 
States  shall  be  allowed  to  purchase  clothing  and  cloth  for  clothing 
from  an}'  quartermaster  at  the  price  which  it  cost  the  government,  all 
expenses  included :  iwovided,  tliat  no  quarLormastcr  shall  be  allowed  to 
sell  to  any  officer  any  clothing  which  would  be  proper  to  issue  to 
privates,  until  all  privates  entitled  to  receive  the  same  shall  have  been 
first  supplied:  provi'lcd,  that-the  officer  offering  to  purchase  shall  give 
his  certificate  on  honor  that  the  articles  arc  necessary  for  his  own  per- 
sonal comfort  and  use,  and  in  no  case  shall  more  than  one  suit  per 
annum  be  allowed  to  bo  so  purchased  by  an  oflBcer :  provided,  that  no 
law  or  army  regulation  shall  hereafter  be  construed  to  allow  an  officer 
to  purchase  or  draw  from  subsistence  stores  more  than  one  ration  a 
day,  or  for  less  price  than  the  cost  thereof,  including  transportation 

Sec- 3.  No  officer  under  the  rank  of  brigadier-general  shall  hereafter 
be  entitled  to  forage  or  commutation  for  forage  for  more  than  gne 
horse,  except  when  on  service  in  the  field. 

IV.. Rations  in  kind,  the  same  in  quality  and  quantity  as  are  now 
allowed  by  law  to  privates,  will  be  issued  to  regimental  commissioned 
officers,  ivhilo  on  duty  iu  the  field,  upon'  provision  returns  approved  by 
the  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment,  and  to  general  and  staflF  offi- 
cers upon  their  own  certificates. 

V.  .One  ration  a  day  in  kind  niaj'  be  purchased  by  any  ofiBcer — not 
in  the  field — who  is  upon  duty  under  orders  from  this  office,  or  from 
any  department  commander,  at  cost,,  including  transportation. 

*  Amended  by  a»t  of  June  7,  1861.     See  G.  0.  No.  52,  c.  s. 


VI.  .Oflicors  retired  in  accordance  with  the  act  to  provide  an  invalid 
corps,  approved  February  17,  1864,  are  not  entitled  to  draw  or  purchase 
rations,  unless  assigned  to  duty  by  orders  under  the  provisions  of  that 
law.  ' 

VII.  .The  Quartermaster-General  will  issue  instructions  to  quarter- 
masters and  assistant  quartermasters  to  carry  into  effect  section  3  of 
the  above  act,  and  so  much  of  section  2  of  the  same  act  as  relates  to 
his  department. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspectbr-Oeneral. 


QENEIIAL  OBDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  29.  j  ■  Richmond,  March  5, 1864. 

I.  .The  following  acts  of  Congress  arc  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army : 

AN  ACT  TO  PREVKNT  THE  PHOCUKING,  Aini.NO,  AND  AS.SISTING  OF  I'Ell- 
SONS  TO  DESERT  FROM  THE  AI5MY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES,  AND 
FOR  OTHER  PURPOSES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
every  person  not  subject  fo  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War,  who  shall 
procure,  or  entice  a  soldier  or  person  enrolled  for' service  in  the  Army 
of  the  Confederate  States  to  desert,  or  who  shall  aid  or  assist  any 
deserter  from  the  army,  or  any  person  enrolled  for  service,  to  evade 
their  proper  commanders,  or  to  prevent  their  arrest  to  be  returned  to 
the  service,  or  who  shall  knowingly  conceal  or  harbor  any  such  desert- 
er, or  shall  purchase  from  any  soldier,  or  person  enrolled  for  service, 
any  portion  of  his  arms,  equipments,  rations,  or  clothing,  or  any  prop- 
erty belonging  to  the  Confederate  States,  or  any  officer  or  soldier  of 
the  Confederate  States,  shall,  upon  conviction  before  the  district  court 
of  the  Confederate  States  having  jurisdiction  of  the  offence,  be  fined 
not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  and  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding 
two  years.     [Approved  January  22,  1864.] 

[2.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AID  ANY  STATE  IN  COMMTNICATING  WITH  AND  PERFECTING 
RECORDS  CONCERNING  ITS  TROOPS. 
The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Sintes  of  America  do  enact,  That 
upon  the  application  of  the  governor  of  any  of  the  Confederate  States, 
the  Sccretarj-  of  War  be  and  he  is  h6reby  authorized  to  grant  pass- 
ports and  tr.\nsportation  to  an  officer  of  such  state,  duly  commissioned 


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according  to  the  law  of  said  state,  to  oommuuicate  with  itu  troops  for 
Euch  purposes,  and  at  such  times  and  places,  as  shall  be  approved  by 
the  Secretary  of  War;  and  such  officer  shall  be  allowed  to  purchase 
for  himself  supplies  from  the  commissary  stores,*  on  the  same  terms 
with  officers  of  similar  rank  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States, 
and  according  to  the  regulations  which  govern  them :  provided,  such 
supplies  shall  not  exceed  those  which  a  colonel  of  the  Confederate 
States  is  allowed  to  purchase :  provided,  that  these  agents  shall  be 
charged  with  the  duty  of  obtaining  from  the  oflSeers  in  command  of 
companies  final  statements  of  deceased  soldiers,  to  be  filed  in  the 
Second  Auditor's  office  to  facilitate  the  settlement  of  such  claims. 
[Approved  February  16,  18C4.] 

[3.] 

AN  ACT  TO  REPEAL  CERTAIN  PORTIONS  OF  THE  ACT  OF  MAY  THE  TWENTY- 
FIRST,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-ONE,  RELATIVE  TO  PRISONERS 
OP  WAR. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
60  much  of  the  act  of  Congress,  passed  May  the  twenty-first,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  as  makes  it  the  duty  of  the  Quartermaster- 
General,  under  instructions  issued  by  the  War  department,  to  provide 
for  the  sustenance  of  prisoners  of  war,  is  hereby  repealed,  and  here- 
after that  duty  shall  devolve  on  the  Commissary-General  of  Sub- 
sistence, and  be  discharged  by  him,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  the  act 
referred  to.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

■      [4.] 

AN  ACT  CREATING  THE  OFFICE  OF  ENSIGN  IN  THE  ARMY  OP  THE  CON- 
FEDERATE STATES. 
The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
there  shall  be  appointed  by  the  President,  to  each  regiment  of  infantryf" 
in  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States,  an  officer  to  be  known  as  "  en- 
sign," with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  first  lieutenant,  whose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  bear  the  colors  of  the  regiment,  but  without  right  to 
command  in  the  field.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  PROMOTION  OF  OFFICERS,  NON-COMMISSIONED 

OFFICERS,  AND  PRIVATES,  FOR  DISTINGUISHED  SKILL  OR  VALOR. 

The  Congress   of  the    Confederate   States  of  America  do  enact.   That 

the  President  is  hereby  authorized,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 

general  commanding  a  department  or  a  separate  army  in  the  field,  to 

=»  See  act  of  May  31,  1863.    Q.  0.  No.  53,  I  [15],  c.  s. 

t  Amended  to  allow  one  to  each  battalion  of  infantry.  See  G.  0.  No.  53, 1  [2],  c.  a. 


fill  .any  vacancy  in  the  commissioned  oflicers  of  a  regiment  or  battalion, 
by  the  promotion  to  the  same,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Senate,  of  any  ofBcer,  non-commissioned  officer,  or  private,  who 
may  have  distinguished  liimsclf  by  exhibiting  peculiar  valor  or  skill 
on  the  battle-field  :  provided,  that  the  officer,  non-commissioned  officer, 
or  private  so  recommended  and  nominated  for  promotion,  shall  belong 
to  the  regiment  or  battalion  in  which  the  vacancy  may  have  occurred. 
Sec.  2.  All  acts,  and  parts  of  acts,  in  conflict  with  the  above  provi- 
sions, are  hereby  repealed.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[6.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMF.XD  THK  ACT  ENTITLED  AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  AND  OROANIZK 
KNGINKEU  TROOPS  TO  SERVE  DniUNO  THE  WAR  (APPROVED  TWENTIETH 
MARCH,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-THREE). 
The   CongresK  of  the   Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 

the  above  recited  act  be  so  amended  that  there  shall  be  allowed  to  each 

regiment  of  engineer  troops  two  quartermaster-sergeants.      [Approved 

February  17,  1864.] 

.  [r.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  THE  ACTS  OF  APRIL  FIRST,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND 
SIXTY-TWO,  AND  SEPTEMBER  TWENTY-THIRD,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND 
SIXTY-TWO. 

7'hc  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Amerioa  do  enact,  That 
the  acts  approved  twenty-first  of  April,  eighteen  hnndrcd  and  sixty- 
two,  and  twenty-third  September,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
regulating  the  increase  and  rank  of  the  corps  of  engineers  of  the  Pro- 
visional Army,  be  amended  to  read  as  follows:  That  the  President  be 
and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Senate,  an  additional  number  of  officers  in  the  engineer  corps  of 
the  Provisional  Army :  provided,  that  the  whole  corps  shall  not  exceed 
one  hundred  and  twenty,  and  that  the  number  of  officers  in  each  grade 
be  limited  to  three  colonels,  four  lieutenant-colonels,  eight  majors, 
forty-five  captains,  thirty-five  first  lieutenants,  and  twent3'-five  second 
lieutenants. 

*Sec.  2.  There  may  be  appointed  six  military  storekeepers,  with  the 
pay  and  allowances  of  captains  of  infantry,  who  shall  give  such  bond 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duty  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the 
Secretary  of  War:  provided,  that  the  said  storekeepers  shall  be  ap- 
pointed from  persons  who  are  disqualified  for  active  service  by  reason 
of  wounds  received  in  the  military  service,  or  disease  contracted  while 
in  the  army,  or  from  persons  over  forty-five  years  of  age.  [Approved 
February  17,  1864.] 

*  Additional  appointed;  act  of  June  4, 1804.    See  G.  0.  No.  53,  T  [4]  c.  s. 


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[8.] 

AK  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITI,ED  AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  AND  ORGANIZE 
ENGINEER  TROOPS  TO  SERVE  D0HING  THE  WAR  (APPROVED  MARCH 
TWENTIETH,  ONE  THOUSAND  EIGHT  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-THREE). 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  an 
act  to  provide  and  organize  engineer  troops  to  serve  during  the  war 
(approved  twentieth  March,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty- 
three)  be  amended  to  read  as  follows :  That  there  shall  be  selected,  in 
such  -manner  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  direct,  from  each  division 
of  infantry  in  service,  or  from  every  twelve  regiments  when  not  formed 
into  divisions,  one  company  of  engineer  troops,  to  consist  of  one  hun- 
dred men,  chosen  with  a  view  to  their  mechanical  skill  and  physical 
fitness,  and  that  the  men  assigned  to  such  company  shall  be  required 
to  serve  in  the  same  only  during  the  balance  of  their  term  of  service 
respectively.  These  companies  may  bo  formed  or  recruited  from  con- 
scripts and  volunteers. 

Sec.  2.  That  each  company  shall  consist  of  eight  sergeants,  seven 
corporals,  forty  artificers,  and  forty-five  laborers,  and  that  two  musi- 
cians may  be  added. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  commissioned  ofiieers  of  each  company  shall  con- 
sist of  one  captain,  one  first  lieutenant,  and  two  second  lioutenauts, 
and  that  the  original  vacancies  in  these  companies  shall  be  filled  by 
transfer  of  officers  of  corresponding  grade  from  the  engineer  corps,  if 
practicable,  and  where  not,  then  from  the  other  corps,  or  from  the 
line  or  statf  of  the  army,  reference  being  always  had  to  their  qualifi- 
cation as  engineers,  or  by  selection  ;  but  no  one  shall  be  selected  who 
is  not  DOW  serving  in  or  with  the  army,  unless  he  is  a  military  or  civil 
engineer. 

Sec.  4.  That  the  companies  shall  be  organized  into  regiments  of  ten 
companies  each,  and  that  the  field  and  staff  officers  shall  consist  of  one 
colonel,  one  lieutenant-colonel,  ono  major,  one  adjutant,  with  the  rank 
of  first  lieutenant,  ono  quartermaster-sergeant,  and  one  sergeant-major, 
and  that  the  original  vacancies  in  the  regiments  shall  be  filled  in  the 
manner  provided  for  filling  the  same  in  the  companies  by  the  third 
session  [section]  of  this  act. 

Sec.  5.  That  in  each  regiment  two  of  the  companies  shall  be 
assigned  to  duty  as  poutoniers,  and  each  be  furnished  with  a  bridge- 
train  complete. 

Sec.  6.  That  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  shall  prescribe  the  number,  form, 
and  dimensions  of  the  wagons,  pontoons,  trestles,  tools,  implements, 
arms,  and  other  necessaries  for  all  the  troops  organized  by  this  act. 

Sec.  7.  That  vacancies  in  the  established  regiments,  to  and  including 
the  rank  of  captain,  shall  be  filled  by  promotion,  regimentally,  accord- 


ing  to  seniority,  except  in  case  of  disability  or  otber  iuuunipcten- 
cy.  The  ficld-oflicers  shnll  bo  appointed  by  selection  from  the  captains 
of  the  regiuiejits  or  battalions,  except  in  the  case  of  original  appoint- 
ment, or  vacancy  caused  by  promotion  to  original  vacancy  of  higher 
rank. 

Sec.  8.  That  the  monthly  pay  of  the  engineer  troops  shall  be  as  fol- 
lows :  Of  a  colonel,  two  hundred  and  ten  dollars;  of  a  lieutenant- 
colonel,  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  dollars;  of  a  major,  one  hundred 
and  sixty-two  dollars  ;  of  a  c.nptain,*ono  hundred  and  forty  dollars  ;  of 
a  first  lieutenant,  one  hundred  dollars;  of  a  second  lieuten.ant,  ninety 
dollars;  and  the  adjutant  shall  receive  ten  dollars  per  mnuth  in  addi- 
tion to  his  pay  as  lieutenant. 

Sec.  9.  That  the  pay  of  the  enlisted  'men  per  month  shall  be  as 
follows:  The  sergeant-major  and  (luartermaster-sergeaiit  each  thirty- 
four  dollars  ;  sergeants,  thirty-four  dollars;  corporals,  twenty  dollars; 
artificers,  .seventeen  dollars ;  laborers  and  musicians,  thirteen  dDllar.". 

Sec.  10.  The  mounted  engineer  troops  may  be  selected  from  the 
cavalry,  and  be  organized  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  for 
engineer  troops,  as  hereinbefore  specified. 

Skc.  11.  OflScors  of  the  engineer  corp.s  and  af  the  engineer  troops  of 
the  Provisional  Army,  of  equal  rank,  may,  with  mutual  consent,  i)e 
transferred  :  provided,  the  relative  rank  of  no  olliecr  of  either  corps  be 
prejudiced  thereby.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[0.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMKNU  THE  SIXTV-FJFTH  AUTICLE  OF  WATt. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  sixty -fifth  Article  of  War  be  so  amended' as  to  read  as  follows  : 

Article  55.  Any  general  officer  commanding  an  army,  or  command- 
ing a  force  of  cavalry  nofr  with  and  under  the  immediate  command  of 
the  commander  of  an  army,  or  other  ofiiccr  commanding  a  separate 
department,  may  appoint  general  courts-martial  whenever  necessary.* 
But  no  sentence  of  a  court-martial  shall  be  carried  into  execution  until 
after  the  whole  proceedings  shall  have  been  laid  before  the  officer 
ordering  the  same,  or  the  ofiicer  commanding  the  trt)ops  for  the  timo 
being;  neither  shall  any  sentence  of  a  general  court-martial  in  time  of 
peace,  extending  to  the  loss  of  life,  or  the  dismission  of  a  commis- 
sioned officer,  or  which  shall,  cither  in  time  of  peace  or  war,  respect  a 
geueial  officer,  be  carried  into  execuiion  until  after  the  whole  proceed- 
ings shall  have  been  transmitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid 
before  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  his  confirmation  or 

*  Anieiidod  by  act  of  June  4,  1864.    See  G.  0.  No.  53, 1  fio],  c.  s. 


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disapproval  and  orders  in  the  case.  All  other  sentences  may  be  con- 
firmed and  executed  by  the  officer  ordering  the  court  to  assemble,  or 
tlie  commanding  officer  for  the  time  being,  as  the  case  may  be.  [Ap- 
proved February  17,  1864.] 

[10.] 

AN    ACT    TO    AMEND    AN    ACT    ENTITLED    AN    ACT    TO    ORGANIZE    MILITARY 
COURTS    TOATTRND   THE    ARMY  OF    THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES    IN  THE 
FIELD,  AND  TO  DEFINE  THE  POWERS  OF  SAID  COURTS. 
The    Congress  of  the    Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  act  entitled  an  act  to  organize  military  courts  to  attend  the  Army 
of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  and  to  define  the  powers  of  said 
courts,  be  so  amended  as  to  authorize  the  President  to  establish  one  in 
North  Alabama,  which  shall  sit  at  such  times  and  places  as  said  court 
may  direct,  and  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  jurisdiction  given  to  said 
military  courts  by  said  act;  but  the  judges  thereof  shall  give  ten  days' 
notice  of  the  times  and  places  of  holding  said  courts  before  the  same 
are  held  :*  provided,  however,  that  said  court  shall  cease  to  exist  after 
one  year  from  the  passage  of  this  act,  unless  longer  continued  by  Con- 
gress.    [Approved  February  13,  1864.] 

[11.] 

AN  ACT  TO    AUTHORIZE  THE  PRESIDENT   TO    ESTABLISH  ADDITIONAL  MILI- 
TARY COURTS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  in 
addition  to  the  military  courts  now  authorized  by  law,  the  President 
be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  a  military  court  to  attend 
any  division  of  cavalry  in  the  field,  and  also  one  for  each  state  within 
a  military  department,  whenever  in  his  judgment  such  courts  would 
promote  the  public  interest ;  which  courts  shall  bo  organized,  and  have 
the  same  powers  and  duties,  and  the  members  thereof  appointed  as 
provided  by  law.     [Approved  February  16,  1864.] 

[12.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  AN  ACT  TO  ORGANIZE  MILITARY 
COURTS  TO  ATTEND  THE  ARMY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  IN  THE 
FIELD,  AND  TO  DEFINE  THE  POWERS  OF  SAID  COURTS  (APPROVED 
OCTOBER  NINTH,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-TWO). 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
when  two  or  more  army  corps  are  united  in  the  same  army,  charges 
shall  be  referred  to  said  courts,  and  their  proceedings  be  subject  to 
review  by  the  army  commjiuder,  as  in  the  case  of  general  courts-mar- 

*  Amended  by  act  of  June  14,  1864.    See  G.'  0.  No.  53, 1  [25],  c.  b. 


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tial;  and  that  tho  jurisilictiou  of  each  of  said  courts  shall  extend  to 
any  person  connected  with  the  army  of  which  the  corps  to  which  the 
court  is  attiiched  miiy  be  a  part,  without  being  limited  to  members  of 
the  particular  corps  to  which  said  court  may  bo  attached. 

Sec.  2.  That  when  tho  corps  to  which  any  military  court  may  he 
attached  shall,  from  any  cause,  cease  to  exist  as  such,  the  Secretary  of 
War  shall  assign  the  members  and  officers  of  such  court  to  any  other 
unsupplied  corps,  or  other  subdivision  of  any  of  tho  armies  of  the 
Confederate  States,  where  a  military  court  may  be  needed ;  and  ex- 
changes and  transfers  of  individual  members  and  oflicers  from  any 
one  court  to  anotlicr  may  be  made  bj'  tho  Secretary  of  War,  on  appli- 
cation of  tho  parties  concerned — the  consent  of  the  commander  or 
commanders  of  tho  army  or  armies  to  which  the  particular  courts 
may  belong  having  been  first  obtained  to  such  exchange  or  transfer. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  fourth  section  of  the  act  of  which  this  is  amenda- 
tory be  and  the  same  is  hereby  so  amended  as  to  extend  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  military  courts  to  all  offenders  below  tho  grade  of  lieuten- 
ant-general.    [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[13.] 

AN    ACT   TO    CONFER    ADDITIONAL    POWERS    UPON    COURTS-MARTIAL    AND 
MILITARY  COURTS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Con/ederale  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
any  military  court  or  court-martial  convened  within  tho  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States  shall  have  power  to  summon,  as  a  witness  before  it, 
any  citizen  of  the  state  in  which  said  court  may  at  the  time  hold  its 
session ;  and  any  citizen  disobeying  such  summons — upon  information 
given  thereof  by  the  judge  advocate  of  said  military  court  or  court- 
martial  to  the  judge  of  the  district  court  of  the  Confederate  States  for 
the  district  in  which  said  citizen  may  reside — shall  bo  subject  to  tho 
same  penalties  as  for  disobedience  of  an  order  of  said  district  court; 
or,  on  application  of  the  judge  .advocate,  such  citizen  witness  may 
by  military  force  be  arrested  and  brought  before  said  military  court 
or  court-martial  by  order  of  the  commander  of  the  array,  and  may|.bo 
held  in  close  confinement  until  he  or  she  shall  consent  to  testify. 

Sec  2.  That  any  citizen  witness  appearing  upon  being  summoned, 
as  provided  in  this  act,  shall  be  paid  such  reasonable  amount  for  his 
or  her  attendance  as  the  commauder  of  the  army  shall  deem  reason- 
able, which  payment  shall  be  made  by  any  paymaster,  upon  the  certifi- 
cate of  said  commander,  specifying  the  ahiount.  [Approved  February 
17,  1864.] 

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[14.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  COMMANDERS  OP  CORI'S  AND  DEPAUTMENTS  TO 
DETAII.  FIELD-OFFICERS  AS  MEMBERS  OF  JIILITARY  COURTS,  UNDER 
CERTAIN  CIRCUMSTANCES. 

Tlw  Covffress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
commanders  of  corps  and  departments  be  and  they  are  hereby  author- 
ized to  detail  field-ofiicers  as  members  of  military  courts  whenever 
any  of  the  judges  of  said  courts  shall  be  disqualified,  by  consanguinity 
or  affinity,  or  unable,  from  sickness  or  other  unavoidable  cause,  to 
attend  said  courts.     [Approved  February  6,  1 8t)4.] 

[15.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  AN  ACT  TO  PUNISH  DRUNKENNESS 
IN  THE  ARMY  (APPROVED  APRIL  TWENTY-FIRST,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED 
AND  SIXTY-TWO). 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
jurisdiction  conferred  upon  courts  of  inquiry  in  the  act  above  recited 
is  hereby  repealed,  and  the  said  jurisdiction  is  hereby  conferred,  for 
the  punishment  of  the  offence  therein  named,  upon  the  military  courts 
and  general  courts-martial  convened  in  the  Army  of  the  Confederate 
St.ates  ;  and  the  proceedings  therein  shall  be  subject  to  review,  as  in 
other  cases. 

Sec.  2.  That  any  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States  is  hereby  author- 
ized to  make  report  of  any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  the  act  to 
which  this  is  an  amendment,  in  the  same  manner  as  odieers  of  the 
army  arc  now  required  to  do. 

Sec.  3.  Upon  any  trial  for  drunkenness  it  shall  be  lawful  to  prove, 
without  special  ch.arge,  that  the  accused  is  of  intemperate  habits  ;  and 
if  the  court  shall  find  that  he  is  of  such  habits,  he  shall  be  cashiered 
or  otherwise  punished  at  the  discretion  of  the  court.  [Approved 
February  17,  1864.] 

[16.] 

AN    act    to    authorize    THE  ORGANIZATION  OF    AUXILIARY    BUREAUS  OF 
THE  WAR  DEPABTMBNT  WEST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI  RIVER. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That, 
under  the  direction  of  the  President,  such  bureaus  or  agencies  of  the 
War  department  may  be  organized  west  of  the  Mississippi  river  as  the 
public  service  may  require,  which  shall  bo  auxiliary  to  the  similar 
bureaus  of  snid  department  established  by  law,  and  shall  perform  such 
duties  as  may  be  directed  by  instructions  from  the  Secretary  of  War, 
or  the  general  commanding  in  the  trans-Mississippi  department,  acting 
under  the  authority  of  thb  War  department. 


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Sec.  2.  Such  staff  officers  and  clerks  may  be  assigned  to  duty,  or 
appointed  by  the  President  iu  these  bureaus,  as  may  be  necessary  for 
the  service  ;  and,  under  authority  from  the  President,  the  general  com- 
manding in  the  trans-Mississippi  department  may  assign  such  officers 
to  duty  or  make  appointments  therein,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
President;  provided  that  no  clerk  employed  under  this  act  shall  be 
allowed  a  salary  exceeding  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  or  be 
liable  to  military  duty.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[17.] 

AN    ACT    AUTHORIZING    CHAPLAINS    IN  CERTAIN    CASES    TO    DRAW  FORAGE 
FOR    ONE    HORSE. 

2'he  Congress  of  the  Gonfederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
chaplains  in  the  army  in  actual  service  in  the  field  shall  be  entitled  to 
draw  forage  for  one  horse :  provided  the  chaplain  has  a  horse  in  his 
use.     [Approved  January  22,  1864.] 

[18.] 

AN    ACT    RKLATING     TO    THE     APPOINTMENT    OF    A    GENERAL     AND     LIEU- 
TENANT-GENERALS. 

The  Con<jress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President  may  appoint  one  general  in  the  Provisional  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States,  when,  iu  his  discretion,  it  shall  bo  deemed  necessary 
and  proper,  for  the  command  of  the  trans-Mississippi  military  depart- 
ment, by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  President  may,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Senate,  appoint  lieutenant-generals  in  the  Provisional  Army  of 
the  Confederate  States,  when,  in  his  discretion,  it  shall  be  deemed  nec- 
essary for  the  command  of  any  one  of  the  military  departments. 

Sec  3.  That  the  officers  appointed  under  the  provisions  of  this  act 
shall  continue  to  hold  the  rank  herein  provided  so  long  as  they  shall 
efficiently  discharge  the  duties  in  command  of  said  several  departments, 
and  no  longer,  but  will  resume  thereafter  their  former  rank  in  the  ser- 
vice.    [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[19.] 

A  BILL  TO  RKPEAL  AN  ACT  TO  ORGANIZE  BANDS  OF  PARTISAN  RANG- 
ERS (APPROVED  APRIL  TWENTY-ONE,  EIGHTBEN  HUNDRED  AND 
sixty-two),    and    FOR   OTHER    PURPOSES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
act  of  Congress  aforesaid  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed :  provided 
that  organizations  of  partisan  ranj^ers,  acAiu^  us  regular  cavalry  at  the 


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passage  of  this  act,  shall  be  continued  in  their  present  organization : 
provided  they  shall  hereafter  be  considered  as  regular  cavalry,  and  not 
as  partisan  rangers. 

Sec.  2.  That  all  the  bands  of  partisan  rangers  organized  under  the 
said  act  may,  as  the  interests  of  the  service  allow,  be  united  with  other 
organizations,  or  be  organized  into  battalions  and  regiments,  with  the 
view  to  bringing  them  under  the  general  conditions  of  the  Provisional 
Army  as  to  discipline,  control,  and  movements,  under  such  regulations 
as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  prescribe. 

Sec.  3.  The  Secretary  of  War  shall  be  authorized,  if  he  deems  prop- 
er, for  a  time  or  permanently,  to  except  from  the  operation  of  this  act 
such  companies  as  are  serving  within  the  lines  of  the  enemy,  and  under 
such  conditions  as  he  may  prescribe.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  30.  J  Richmond,  March  7, 1864. 

I.. The  following  act  of  Congress  concerning  impressments,  and  the 
instructions  of  the  War  department  respecting  it,  are  published  for  the 
information  and  direction  of  all  concerned : 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  TO  REGULATE  IMPRESSMENTS  (APPROVED 
MARCH  TWENTY-SIXTH,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-THREe),  AND 
TO  REPEAL  AN  ACT  AMENDATORY  THEREOF  (APPROVED  APRIL 
TWENTY-SEVENTH,   EIGHTEEN   HUNDRED    AND    SIXTY-THREE). 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  in 
all  cases  where  property  is  impressed  for  the  use  of  the  army  and  navy, 
or  for  other  public  use,  under  said  act,  the  same  shall  be  paid  for  at  the 
time  of  said  impressment,  unless  an  appeal  shall  be  taken  from  said 
valuation,  as  hereinafter  provided,  according  to  the  valuation  agreed 
upon  between  the  parties,  or  ascertained  by  loyal  and  disinterested 
citizens  of  the  city,  county,  or  parish  in  which  the  impressment  may  be 
made,  in  the  manner  and  according  to  the  regulations  provided  in  the 
first,  second,  and  third  sections  of  the  above  recited  act,  or  in  the 
eighth  section  thereof,  where  it  is  applicable. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  the  officer  making  the  impressment  of  property, 
under  the  act  hereby  amended,  shall  believe  that  the  appraisement  is 
fair  and  just,  he  shall  endorse  his  approval  upon  the  appraisement^  and 


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make  payment  acconliugl.v ;  but  if  he  shall  boHevo  that  it  is  not  fair 
and  just,  then  he  shall  refuse  to  approve,  and  endorse  the  reasons  of  his 
refusal  on  the  certificate,  and  shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  from  the 
decision  of  the  appraisers,  by  reporting  the  case  to  the  commissioners 
appointed  under  said  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  for  their  de- 
cision, whoso  judgment  shall  be  final ;  and  in  the  meantime  the  prop- 
erty shall  be  held  and  appropriated  by  the  officer  impressing  the 
same,  who  shall  give  a  receipt  therefor  to  the  owner,  who  shall  also 
have  the  right  of  appeal  as  herein  provided. 

Sec.  3.  The  said  commissioners  shall  have  power  to  summon  and 
examine  witnesses  to  enable  them  to  fix  the  value  of  property  impress- 
ed, which  shall  be  a  just  compensation  for  the  property  so  impressed,  at 
the  time  and  place  of  impressment ;  and  when  the  commissioners  shall 
have  fixed  the  value  of  property  in  cases  of  appeal,  they  shall  furnish 
the  owner  and  impressing  officer  with  a  statement  of  such  value,  which 
valuation  by  the  commissioners  shall  be  within  three  months  from  the 
time  of  impressment. 

Skc.  4.  That  said  commissioners  shall  be  sworn  faithfully  to  dis- 
charge all  their  duties  under  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which  this  is  an 
amendment. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  tenth  section  of  the  act  of  which  this  is  an  amend, 
ment  be  stricken  out,  and  the  following  inserted  instead  thereof: 

"No  slave  laboring  on  a  farm  or  plantation,  exclusively  devoted  to 
the  production  of  grain  or  provisions,  shall  be  taken  for  public  use, 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner,  except  in  case  of  urgent  necessity, 
and  upon  the  order  of  the  general  commanding  the  department  in 
which  said  farm  or  plantation  is  situated." 

Skc.  6.  That  the  act  amendatory  of  the  above  recited  act  (approved 
April  twenty-seventh,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three),  and  so  much 
of  the  first  section  of  said  act  as  requires  an  affidavit  to  be  made  by 
the  owner  or  his  agent  that  such  property  was  grown,  raised,  or  pro- 
duced by  said  owner,  or  held,  or  has  been  purchased  by  him,  not  for 
sale  or  speculation,  but  for  his  own  use  or  consumption,  be  and  the 
same  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  7.  That  no  impressment  shall  be  made  under  this  act,  or  the 
act  to  which  this  is  amendatory,  for  the  use  or  benefit  of  contractors 
with  the  government. 

Sec.  8.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  authorize  the  im- 
pressing officer  to  enter  an  appeal  from  any  decision  of  the  local  ap- 
praisers, under  the  seventh  section  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  amenda- 
tory.    [Approved  February  16,  1864.] 

II.  .Impressmfnls  according  to  this  act,  and  the  net  to  which  this  is 


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an  ameudmeut,  may  be  made  for  necessary  supplies  for  the  Confeder- 
ate armies  in  the  field,  and  for  their  accumulation  in  magazines,  and  at 
posts  and  depots,  and  to  carry  on  the  various  operations  of  the  military 
bureaus  connected  with  the  War  department,  whenever  the  same  can 
not  be  obtained  by  contract. 

■  III.  .They  may  be  made  under  orders  from  the  generals  commanding 
armies,  departments,  corps,  divisions,  and  by  commanders  of  detached 
parties,  when  a  necessity  arises  therefor.  These  orders  may  be  exe- 
cuted by  appropriate  officers  of  the  staff  belonging  to  the  armj'.  The 
chiefs  of  the  various  bureaus  will  designate  the  officers  and  person.^ 
who  shall  be  competent  to  make  impressments  under  the  authority  con- 
ferred upon  them. 

IV.  .Before  any  impressment  shall  be  made,  the  impressing  officer  or 
his  agent  will  make  an  offer  to  the  owner,  his  baile^e,  or  agent,  in  writ- 
ing, for  the  purchase  of  the  property,  describing  the  property  he 
wishes  to  purchase,  the  price  he  is  willing  to  pay,  and  the  mode  of  pay- 
ment, and  stating  that,  upon  a  refusal  to  accept  the  same,  compensation 
will  be  made  according  to  the  acts  of  Congress  for  the  regulation  of 
impressments.  This  notice  will  be  considered  as  binding  the  property 
until  the  completion  of  the  negotiation  for  the  sale  and  transfer  of  the 
same  to  the  impressing  officer.  The  property  will  remain  in  the  cus- 
todj'  of  the  owner  and  at  his  risk  during  the  pending  of  these  proceed- 
ings, unless  a  delivery  of  the  same  be  thereupon  made  to  the  impress- 
ing officer,  with  his  consent.  In  case  of  a  change  of  possession  under 
these  circumstances,  the  Confederate  States  will  be  regarded  as  the 
owner,  and  the  property  held  for  its  use  and  at  its  risk. 

v.  .In  all  cases  in  which  the  offer  of  an  impressing  officer  is  refused, 
he  will  proceed  to  adjust  the  price  according  to  the  first  section  of  the 
act  above  recited  :  that  is,  by  the  judgment  of  two  loyal  and  disinter- 
ested persons  of  the  city,  county,  or  parish  in  which  the  impressment 
may  be  made — one  to  be  selected  by  the  owner,  his  bailee,  or  agent,  and 
one  by  the  impressing  officer.  In  the  event  of  their  disagreement, 
these  two  will  select  an  umpire  of  like  qualification.  The  persons  thus 
selected  will  proceed  to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so 
impressed,  whether  the  absolute  ownership  or  the  temporary  use  thereof 
be  required.  If  the  impressing  officer  believes  that  the  appraisement 
is  fair  and  just,  he  will  endorse  his  approval,  and  pay  for  the  property, 
and  the  right  in  the  object  impres-ied  will  become  the  property  of  the 
Confederate  States.  But  if  he  does  not  approve  of  the  appraisement, 
he  will  decline  to  approve  it,  and  endcirse  the  reasons  for  his  refusal  on 
the  certificate,  and  forthwith  report  the  case  to  the  commissioners  ap- 


pointed  under  the  fifth  ?oction  of  tho  act  to  which  ihe  act  aboro  recit- 
ed is  an  amendment;  and  in  the  meantime  the  proport}^  will  be  taken, 
and  a  receipt  describing  the  i)ropcrty  and  the  proceedings  for  the  adjust- 
ment of  the  price  and  the  appeal,  given  to  the  owner.  The  impressing 
ofTieor  will  immediately  report  the  case  to  the  appraisers,  with  a  state- 
ment of  the  iiunlitv  and  condition  of  the  property,  and  his  opinion 
upon  the  gnbject. 

VI.. No  oflScer  or  agent  will  impress  the  necessary  supplies  which 
any  per.-jon  may  have  for  the  consumption  of  himself,  liis  family,  em- 
ployees, or  slaves,  or  to  carry  on  his  ordinary  mechanical,  manufactur- 
ing, or  agricuUur.al  employments. 

If  any  question  arise  as  to  the  fact  whether  the  supplies  are  neces- 
sary, or  whether  there  be  a  surplus,  it  will  be  determined  by  appraiser;! 
mutually  selected  according  to  the  preceding  section :  and  in  this  case 
the  decision  of  the  .appraisers  will  be  binding  on  the  officer,  who  vvill 
not  be  allowed  an  appeal  therefrohj. 

VII.. These  regulations  are  published  as  a  substitute  for  the  regula- 
tions contained  in  General  Orders,  Nos.  .S7  and  1(51.  series  of  l?fi.^. 

By  order. 

t^.  COOPER, 
Adjiittint  and  iHHjjitcloy-Gencrfi/. 


GRNERAL  ORDKUS.)  Adjutant  and  iNSPKOtou-GKNCRAi.'s  Offick, 

No.  31.  J  .      Richmond,  March  10, 1864. 

T.  .The  following  act  of  Congress,  "for  the  suspension  of  the  writ  of 
habeas  corpus  in  certain  cases,"  with  the  instructions  of  the  War  de- 
partment, is  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

AN    ACT   TO    SUSrKND    TIIK    PRIVILKGK     OP     THR    WRIT     OF    HABEAS    COB- 
PUS    IN    CERTAIN    CASES. 

Whereas  the  ConsUtution  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  pro- 
vides, in  article  first,  section  nine,  paragraph  three,  that  "  tho  privilege 
of  tho  writ  of  habeas  corpus  .shall  not  be  suspended  unless  when,  in 
case  of  rebellion  or  invasion,  the  public  safety  may  require  it;"  and. 
whereas  the  power  of  su.spcnding  the  privilege  of  said  writ,  as  recog- 
nized in  said  article  first,  is  vested  solely  in  the  Congress,  which  is  tho 
exclusive  judge  of  the  necessity  of  such  suspension  ;  and  whereas,  in 
the  opinion  of  tho  Congress,  tho  public  safety  requires  the  .'suspension 


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of  said  writ  in  the  existing  case  of  the  invasion  of  these  stat«B  by  the 
armies  of  the  United  States  ;  and  whereas  the  President  has  asked  for 
the  suspension  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  and  informed  Congress  of 
conditions  of  public  danger  which  render  the  suspension  of  the  writ  a 
measure  proper  for  the  public  defence  against  invasion  and  insurrec- 
tion :  now,  therefore, 

The  Congress  of  the  Coufcderute  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
during  the  present  invasion  of  the  Confederate  States,  the  privilege  of 
the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  suspended  ;  but 
such  suspension  shall  apply  only  to  the  cases  of  persons  arrested  or 
detained  by  order  of  the  President,  Secretary  of  War,  or  the  general 
ofiicer  commanding  the  trans-Mississippi  military  department,  by  the 
authority  and  under  the  control  of  the  President.  It  is  hereby  declared 
that  the  purpose  of  Congress,  in  the  passage  of  this  act,  is  to  provide 
more  eflfectually  for  the  public  safety,  by  suspending  the  writ  of  habeas 
corpus  in  the  following  cases,  and  no  others: 

Ji'irst — Of  treason,  or  treasonable  efif'  rts  or  combinations  to  subvert 
the  Government  of  the  Confederate  Stiil«;s. 

Second — Of  conspiracies  to  overtbr^  w  the  jrovernrnen'.  or  conspiracies 
to  resist  the  lawful  authorities  of  the  Ccnfederait-  S  -.it'-s 

Third — Of  combining  to  assist  the  enemy,  or  of  (■■•ijumuiiicauiig  ioiel- 
ligence  to  the  enemy,  or  giving  him  aid  and  comfort.  * 

Fourth — Of  conspiracies,  preparations,  and  attempts  to  incite  servile 
insurrection. 

Fifth — Of  desertions,  or  encouraging  desertions,  of  harboring  desert- 
ers, and  of  attempts  to  avoid  military  service :  provided,  that  in  cases 
of  palpable  wrong  and  oppression  by  any  subordinate  officer,  upon  any 
party  who  does  not  legally  owe  military  service,  his  superior  officer 
shall  grant  prompt  relief  to  the  oppressed  party,  and  the  subordinate  shall 
be  dismissed  from  office. 

Sixth — Of  spies  and  other  emissaries  of  the  enemy. 

Seventh — Of  holding  correspondence  or  intercourse  with  the  enemy 
without  necessity,  and  without  the  permission  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Eighth — Of  unlawful  trading  with,  the  enemy,  and  other  offences 
against  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States,  enacted  tcf  promote  their 
success  in  the  war. 

Ninth — Of  conspiracies,  or  attempts  to  liberate  prisoners  of  war 
held  by  the  Confederate  States. 

Tenth — Of  conspiracies,  or  attempts,  or  preparations  to  aid  the  enemy. 

Eleventh — Of  persons  advising  or  inciting  others  to  abandon  the  Con- 
federate cause,  or  to  resist  the  Confederate  States,  or  to  adhere  to  the 
enemy. 

Ticelfth~Of  unlawfully  burning,  destroying,  or  injuring,  or  attempt- 


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ing  to  burn,  destroy,  or  iujure  any  bridge,  or  railroad,  or  telegraphic  line 
of  communication,  or  other  property,  with  the  intent  of  aiding  the 
enemy. 

Thirteenth — Of  treasonable  designs  to  impair  the  military  power  of 
the  government,  by  destroying,  or  attempting  to  destroy,  the  vessels  or 
arms,  or  munitions  of  war,  or  arsenals,  foundries,  workshops,  or  other 
property  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Sec.  2.  The  President  ^hall  cause  proper  oflRcers  to  investigate  the 
cases  of  all  persons  so  arrested  or  detained,  in  order  that  they  may  be 
discharged,  if  improperly  detained,  unless  they  can  be  speedily  tried  in 
the  due  course  of  law. 

Skc.  3.  That  during  the  suspension  aforesaid  no  military  or  other 
officer  shall  be  compelled,  in  answer  to  any  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  to 
appear  in  person,  or  to  return  the  body  of  any  person  or  persons  de- 
tained by  him  by  the  authority  of  the  President,  Secretary  of  War,  or 
the  general  oflSeer  commanding  the  trans-Mississippi  department ;  but 
upon  the  certificate  under  oath  of  the  officer  having  charge  of  any  one 
80  detained,  that  such  person  is  detained  by  him  as  a  prisoner  for  any 
of  the  causes  hereinbefore  specitiud,  under  the  authority  aforesaid, 
further  proceedings  under  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  shall  immediately 
cease,  and  remain  suspended  so  long  as  this  act  shall  continue  in  force. 

Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  continue  in  force  for  ninety  days  after  the  next 
meeting  of  Congress,  and  no  longer. 

A  true  copy. 

Jaues  M.  Mattheavs, 

Law   Clerk. 

Approved  February  15,  1864. 

II.  .There  will  be  appointed  by  this  department,  for  each  military  de- 
partment of  the  Confederacy  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  one  or 
more  competent  persons  as  commissioners  to  investigate  the  cases  of 
persons  who  may  be  arrested  or  detained  by  any  military  authority  for 
any  cause  specified  within  the  above  recited  act.  Information  of  all 
such  arrests  will  be  given  to  bim  bj'  the  department  commander  as  soon 
as  practicable  after  they  are  made,  and  he  will  proceed  to  investigate 
the  same.  If,  upon  examination,  a  reasonable  and  probable  cause  for 
detention  does  not  appear,  he  will  certify  the  fact  to  the  general  or  other 
officer  in  command,  who  will  immediately  discharge  the  prisoner  from 
arrest.  But  if  a  reasonable  and  probable  cause  does  appear,  the  com- 
missioner will  forthwith  transmit  to  this  department  a  copy  of  the  evi- 
dence taken  in  the  case,  with  his  opinion  thereon,  for  instructions,  and 
meanwhile  the  prisoner  shall  remain  in  custody. 

III.  .In  all  cases  in  which  a  person  who  has  been  enlisted  in  the  army 


5.^ 

under  any  of  the  acts  of  Congress  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,  or 
to  raise  troops  to  serve  during  the  war,  or  to  provide  for  local  defence 
and  special  service,  or  who  has  been  enlisted  or  enrolled  for  service  under 
the  acts  of  Congres  further  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,  or  has 
been  placed  in  the  military  service  by  the  act  of  Congress  to  organize 
forces  to  serve  during  the  war,  approved  17th  of  February,  1864,  or  shall 
be  held  in  custody  for  desertion  or  encouraging  desertions,  of  harboring 
deserters,  and  of  attempts  to  avoid  military»service,  or  of  holding  cor- 
respondence or  intercotirse  with  the  enemy  without  necessity  and  with- 
out the  permission  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  of  combining  to  assist 
the  enemy,  or  of  communicating  intelligence  to  the  enemy,  or  of  giving 
him  aid  and  comfort,  or  for  any  other  cause  specified  in  the  act  afore- 
said— and  in  all  cases  in  which  any  person  not  belonging  to  the  military 
service  shall  be  held  in  custody  by  any  military  authority  for  any  of 
the  causes  mentioned  in  the  act — shall  apply  to  any  court  or  officer  in  the 
Confederate  States  for  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the 
officer  having  the  command  or  custody  of  such  person  forthwith  to  re- 
port the  case,  with  all  the  relevant  facts,  to  the  War  department  for  in- 
structions as  to  the  proper  answer  to  be  made  to  such  writ,  and  in  the 
meantime  to  retain  the  custody  and  control  of  such  person  under  this 
order,  a  copy  of  which  will  be  communicated  to  the  officer  or  court 
issuing  the  writ,  as  affording  the  reason  why  time  should  be  given  to 
make  a  more  complete  return. 

IV.  .In  all  cases  when  the  requisite  delay  can  not  be  obtained,  it  will 
be  the  duty  of  the  officer  having  command  and  custody  of  persons  em- 
braced in  the  preceding  section,  or  who  may  have  in  custody  as  prison- 
ers any  person  charged  under  any  of  the  sections  of  the  above  recited 
act  of  Congress,  to  make  a  special  return  in  writing  and  under  oath,  that 
the  body  of  such  person  so  detained  by  him  is  detained  by  the  authority  of 
the  Secretary  of  War,  and  that  he  declines,  under  and  by  virtue  of  his 
authority  and  the  act  of  Congress  aforesaid,  to  produce  the  body  of 
such  person,  or  to  make  further  appearance  or  return  to  the  said  writ. 

v.. The  commanding  general  of  the  trans-Mississippi  department 
will  perform  the  functions  devolving  upon  the  War  department,  under 
these  orders,  in  that  portion  of  the  Confederacy. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inxpector-Gencral. 


GJQNKRAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  iNSPECTOR-UESr.RAi.'s  Ofuce, 

No.  32.  I  Richmond,  3/arc7i  11,  1804. 

I.  The  act  of  Congress  relative  to  the  employment  of  free  negroes  anil 
slaves  in  certain  capacities,  and  the  instructions  of  the  War  department 
relative  to  its  execution,  are  published  for  the  information  of  those  con- 
cerned ; 

AN  ACT  TO  INOIIKASE    THR    KFFICIKNCY  01'    Till!    ARMY  BV    TIIK    EMPLOV- 

MKNT  OF  PREU  NEORORS  AND  SLAVES  IV  OF.RTAIN  CAPACITIES. 

Whereas  the  etRoiency  of  the  army  is  greatly  diminished  by  the  with- 
drawal from  the  ranks  of  able-bodied  soldiers  to  act  as  teamstero,  and 
in  various  other  capacities  in  which  free  negroes  and  slaves  might  bo 
advantageously  employed  :  Therefore, 

The  Congress  of.  the  ConfcderQ.te  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
all  male  free  negroes  and  other  free  persons  of  color,  not  including 
those  who  arc  free  under  the  treaty  of  Paris  of  1803,  or  under  the  treaty 
of  Spain  of  1819,  resident  in  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages 
of  eighteen  and  fifty  years,  shall  be  held  liable  to  perform  such  duties 
with  the  army,  or  in  connection  with  the  military  defences  of  the  coun- 
trj",  in  the  way  of  work  upon  fortifications  or  in  government  works  for 
the  production  or  preparation  of  materials  of  war,  or  in  military  hos- 
pitals, as  the  Secretary  of  AVar  or  the  commanding  general  of  the 
trnns-Mississippi  department  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe;  and 
while  engaged  in  the  performance  of  such  duties  shall  receive  rations, 
and  clothing,  and  compensation  at  the  rate  of  eleven  dollars  a  month, 
under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the  said  secretary  maj'  establish  : 
jyrovided,  that  the  Secretary  of  War  or  the  commanding  general  of  the 
trans-Mississippi  department,  with  the  approval  of  the  President,  may 
exempt  from  the  operations  of  this  act  such  free  negroes  as  the  inter- 
ests of  the  country  may  require  should  be  exempted,  or  such  as  he  may 
think  proper  to  exempt  on  grounds  of  justice,  equity,  or  necessity. 

That  the  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  emploj',  for  duties 
similar  to  those  indicated  in  the  preccdin,g  section  of  this  act,  as  many 
male  negro  slaves,  not  to  exceed  twenty  thousand,  as  in  his  judgment 
the  wants  of  the  service  maj'  require,  furnishing  them,  while  so  em- 
ployed, with  proper  rations  and  clothing,  under  rules  and  regulations 
to  be  established  by  him,  and  paying  to  the  owners  of  said  slaves  such 
wages  as  may  be  agreed  upon  with  said  owners  for  their  use  and  ser- 
vice ;  and  in  the  event  of  the  loss  of  an}'  slaves  while  so  employed,  by 
the  act  of  the  enemy,  or  by  escape  to  the  enemy,  or  by  death  inflicted 
by  the  enemy,  or  by  disease  contracted  while  in  any  service  reiiuired  of 
said  shaves,  then  the  owners  of  the  same  shall  bo  entitled  to  ivicoive  the 


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full  value  of  such  slaves,  to  be  ascertained  by  agreement  or  by  appraise- 
ment, under  the  law  regulating  impressments,  to  be  paid  under  such 
rules  and  regulations  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  establish. 

That  when  the  Secretary  of  AVar  shall  be  unable  to  procure  the  ser- 
vices of  slaves  in  any  military  department  in  sufficient  numbers  for  the 
necessities  of  the  department,  upon  the  terms  and  conditions  set  forth 
in  the  preceding  section,  then  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  impress  the 
services  of  as  many  male  slaves,  not  to  exceed  twenty  thousand,  as  may 
be  required,  from  time  to  time,  to  discharge  the  duties  indicated  in  the 
first  section  of  thi3  act,  according  to  the  laws  regulating  the  impress- 
ment of  slaves  in  other  cases :  provided,  that  slaves  so  impressed  shall, 
while  employed,  receive  the  same  rations  and  clothing,  in  kind  and 
quantity,  as  slaves  regularly  hired  from  their  owners,  and  in  the  event 
of  their  loss,  shall  be  paid  for  in  the  same  manner,  and  under  the  same 
rules  established  by  the  said  impressment  laws :  provided,  that  if  the 
owner  have  but  one  male  slave  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  fifty, 
he  shall  not  be  impressed  against  the  will  of  said  owner  :  provided,  fur- 
ther, that  free  negroes  shall  be  first  Impressed,  and  if  there  should  be  a 
deficiency,  it  shall  be  supplied  by  the  impressment  of  slaves  according 
to  the  foregoing  provisions :  2)rovided,  further,  that  in  making  the  im- 
pressment not  more  than  one  of  every  five  male  slaves  between  the 
ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five  shall  be  taken  from  any  owner,  care  be- 
ing taken  to  allow  in  each  case  a  credit  for  all  slaves  who  may  have 
been  already  impressed  under  this  act,  and  who  are  still  in  service,  or 
have  died,  or  been  lost  while  in  service.  And  all  impressments  under 
this  act  shall  be  taken  in  equal  ratio  from  all  owners  in  the  same  local- 
ity, city,  county,  or  district. 

Thomas  S.  Bocock, 
Speaker  House  of  Representatives. 
R.  M.  T.  HuNTEH, 
President  pro  tern,  of  the  Senate. 

Approved  February  17,  1864. 

Jefferson  Davis. 

II.  The  Bureau  of  Conscription  will  direct  the  enrolment  of  all  the 
persons  described  in  the  first  section  of  the  act  aforesaid,  east  of  the 
Mississippi  river,  who  are  not  unfit  for  the  service  required  from  them 
by  reason  of  physical  or  mental  incapacity  or  imbecility,  and  will  assign 
them  to  the  performance  of  the  duties  mentioned  in  the  act,  or  similar 
duties,  in  any  of  the  military  bureaus  or  with  troops  in  the  field,  as  there 
may  be  any  call  for  such  service. 

III.  Applications  for  an  exemption  on  the  grounds  that  the  interests 
of  the  country  require  it,  or  because  it  is  demanded  by  justice,  equity. 


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or  necessity,  will  be  made  to  the  enrolling  officer  in  writing,  and  will 
be  disposed  of  by  bim  according  to  tbe  general  directions  contained  in 
the  regulations  published  in  Orders  No.  26  (ISfil),  under  the  "  act  to 
organize  forces  to  serve  during  the  war." 

IV.  For  the  execution  of  the  sections  in  the  foregoing  act  relative  to 
the  employment  and  imprcfssmeut  of  slaves,  the  provisions  of  Orders 
No.  138,  of  the  2 1th  of  October,  1863,  will  afford  the  requisite  rules  for  the 
guidance  of  tbe  military  bureaus  and  commanding  generals,  with  modi- 
fications hereafter  mentioned.  1st.  That  slaves  shall  not  be  impressed 
when  tbe  services  of  free  negroes  can  be  obtained.  2d.  Slaves  under 
the  age  of  eighteen  and  above  the  age  of  fifty  are  exempt.  3d.  The 
hire  for  slaves  impressed  shall  be  according  to  the  rates  txed  by  the 
appraisers  under  the  act  to  regulate  impressments.  4th.  The  limitation 
as  to  the  term  for  which  slaves  shall  be  impressed  for  service  shall  bo 
for  twelve  months,  instead  of  the  term  fixed  by  said  orders,  if  the  exi- 
gency shall  require  it. 

V.  All  impressments  for  service  in  the  various  military  bureaus  un- 
der this  act  will  be  by  special  order,  upon  application  to  the  War  de- 
partment, disclosing  the  efforts  that  have  been  made  to  provide  other 
labor  specified  in  the  act,  the  necessity  for  the  impressment,  and  the 
plan  proposed  to  secure  it. 

VI.  The  general  commanding  the  trans-Mississippi  department  will 
superintend  the  execution  of  the  law  for  that  department. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspcctor-Oeiteral. 


GENSRAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  iNSPECToR-GsNEttAi's  Offiob, 

No.  33.  J  Richmond,  March  16,  1864. 

I.  The  Bureau  of  Conscription  will  proceed  to  enroll  all  persons  be- 
tween the  ages  of  seventeen  and  eighteen  years,  and  between  the  ages 
of  forty-five  and  fifty  years,  under  the  5th  section  of  the  act  of  Congress 
to  organize  forces  to  serve  during  the  war. 

II.  Persons  liable  to  enrolment  will  present  themselves  to  the  enroll- 
ing officer,  in  the  states  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  within  thirty  days 
from  the  day  wheo  notice  aball  be  given  in  tbe  district  or  county  by 


the  ourolling  oflicer  for  persons  of  this  class'  to  appear  for  eurolment. 
The  failure  to  oomplj'  with  this  notice  will  subject  the  defaulter  to  a 
liability  to  be  called  into  the  general  service  with  the  class  of  persons 
between  eighteen  and  forty-five,  unless  ho  shall  have  a  Vtalid  excuse 
therefor,  to  be  judged  of  by  the  Bureau  of  Conscription. 

III.  Any  person  liable  to  enrolment  under  this  act  may  join  any 
company  for  local  defence  which  has  been  formed  "under  General  Or- 
ders, No.  86,  issued  22d  of  June,  1863,  for  the  war,  or  any  other  com- 
pany for  local  defence  which  has  been  accepted  into  the  service,  and 
which,  by  the  terms  of  its  enlistment,  is  liable  'to  serve  anywhere  with- 
in the  state  :  or  persons  of  this  class  may  form  new  companies  for  local 
defence  and  special  service,  under  General  Orders,  No.  86  (1863),  for 
the  war,  and  select  their  own  ofiBeers. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Acljiifuiit  and  Inspector-ireneral. 


QilNERAL  ORDBRS,  >  Adjutant  and  iNsriiCTOR-GENERAL's  Ofi'IC  w 

No.  34.  )  Richmond,  March  10, 1864. 

I.  .The  following  act  of  Congress  and  orders  are  published  for  the 
information  of  the  army  : 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  AN  INVALID  CORPS. 

27ie  Gonyrcss  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Aiixerica  do  enact,  That  all 
officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  privates,  and  seamen,* 
who  have  or  shall  become  disabled  by  wounds  or  other  injuries  received, 
or  disease  contracted  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  in 
the  line  of  duty,  shall  be  retired  or  discharged  from  their  respective  po- 
sitions as  hereinafter  provided.  But  the  rank,  pay,  and  emoluments  of 
such  officers,  and  the  pay  and  emoluments  of  such  non-commissioned 
officers,  musicians,  privates,  and  seamen  shall  continue  to  the  end  of 
the  war,  or  as  long  as  they  shall  continue  so  retired  or  discharged. 

Sec.  2.  That  all  persons  claiming  the  benefits  of  this  act  shall  pre- 
sent themselves  for  examination  to  one  of  the  medical  examining  boards 
now  established  by  law.  Upon  the  certificate  of  such  board  that  such 
permanent  disability  exists,  such  persons  shall  be  retired  or  discharged 
as  aforesaid. 

*  Extended  to  embrace  those  in  Navy  and  Marine  corps,  by  act  of  June  1, 1864. 
See  Q.  0.  No.  63, 1  [12],  c.  s. 


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Sec.  3.  That  all  pcrsons'retired  or  discharged  as  aforesaid  shall,  pe- 
riodically, and  at  least  once  in  six  months,  present  theuiselves  to  one 
or  said  boards  for  further  examination,  under  regulations  to  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  Secretary  of  War— the  result  of  which  examination  shall 
bo  reported  by  such  board  to  the  said  secretary.  And  if  any  such  per- 
son shall  fail  so  to  report  himself  to  such  board  whenever  he  shall  bo  re- 
quired so  to  do,  he  shall  be  dropped  from  said  retired  or  discharged  list, 
and  become  liable  to  conscription  under  the  terms  of  the  law,  unless 
such  failure  shall  be  caused  by  physical  disability. 

Sec.  4.  That  the  gecretary  of  War  may  assign  such  officers,  and  or- 
der the  detail  of  such  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  privates, 
and  seamen  for  such  duty  as  tbey  shall  be  qualified  to  perform.  If  any 
such  non-commissioned  offiters,  musicians,  privates,  and  seamen  shall  be 
relieved  from  disability,  they  shall  be  restored  to  duty  in  their  respec- 
tive commands. 

Skc.  5.  That  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  make  all  needful  rules  and 
regulations  for  the  action  of  the  medical  boards  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  fi.  That  vacancies  caused  by  the  retirement  of  officers  under 
this  act,  shall  be  filled  as  in  case  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  such 
officers. 

Sbo.  7.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  its  passage.  [Approved  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1864.] 

II.. Applications  will  be  made  by  officers  and  soldiers  who  wish  to 
be  retired  or  discharged  under  this  act,  through  their  commanding  offi- 
cers, for  authority  to  appear  before  one  of  the  medical  examining  boards 
now  established  by  law. 

Commanding  officers  will  endorse  fully  the  facts  connected  with  the 
alleged  disability,  and  forward  the  application  to  the  general  command- 
ing, who  will  return  it  to  the  applicant  with  his  approval,  or  the  reason 
why  it  is  withheld  The  endorsement  will  be  the  authority  to  the  board, 
which  will  be  composed  of  three  medical  officers,  for  the  examination 
of  the  applicant. 

III.  .If  the  application  be  approved  by  the  commanding  general,  and 
the  board  find  the  soldier  permanently  disabled  by  wounds  or  other  in- 
juries received,  or  disease  contracted  in  the  service,  it  will  retire  the 
soldier,  and  forward  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  the  original 
application  and  certificates;  or,  if  the  board  find  a  soldier  totally  unfit 
for  duty  in  any  department  of  service,  he  may,  if  he  prefer  it,  be  dis- 
charged upon  certificates  of  disability,  under  the  regulations  and  usage 
of  the  service,  as  before  the  enactment  of  the  law  providing  an  invalid 
corps. 


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If  the  application  be  disapproved,  the  bo^rd  may,  nevertheless,  pro- 
ceed with  the  examination.  If  they  find  the  applicant  permanently 
disabled  from  either  of  the  causes  stated  in  the  act,  they  will  not  retire 
him,  but  forward  the  original  application  and  their  certificate  to  the 
Surgeon-General,  for  final  action  at  this  office. 

*  IV.  .A  corresponding  course  will  be  pursued  when  the  applicants 
are  officers,  except  that  the  board  will  not  retire,  but  forward  the  cer- 
tificates,  through  the  Surgeon-General,  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General. 

v.. If  the  board  examining  the  officer  or  soldier  find  him  disabled 
for  service  in  the  field,  but  fit  for  duty  in  some  department  of  service, 
the  duty  he  can  best  perform  will  be  indicated  in  the  certificate,  which 
will  be  forwarded  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 

VI.. Officers  recommended,  under  the  act  to  relieve  the  army  of  dis- 
qualified, disabled,  or  incompetent  officers,  approved  October  13,  1862, 
to  be  retired,  because  of  wounds  or  other  injuries  received,  or  disease 
contracted  in  the  service,  will  receive,  upon  their  written  application  to 
the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  authority  to  appear  before  one  of 
the  medical  examining  boards  for  retiring  officers  and  privates  under 
the  act  above  recited,  approved  February  17,  1864. 

VII.  .Officers  or  soldiers  retired  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  will 
present  themselves  once  in  six  months  to  one  of  the  boards  of  surgeons 
indicated  in  paragraph  II  of  these  Orders,  for  further  examination — 
the  result  of  which  will  be  certified  as  directed  in  paragraph  III  of 
these  Orders.  If  prevented  by  physical  disability  from  so  presenting 
himself,  the  cause  of  such  failure  will  be  established  by  the  certificate  of 
a  surgeon  of  the  army,  or  of  a  citizen  physician,  and  the  enrolling  offi- 
cer of  the  district  in  which  the  person  may  at  the  time  be  residing.  As 
soon  as  the  physical  disability  is  removed,  the  officer  or  soldier  will  ap- 
pear before  the  board  for  re-ezamioation. 

VIII.  .Failure  to  appear  periodically,  as  provided  by  the  preceding 
paragraph,  will  be  reported  by  the  medical  examining  board  and  proper 
enrolling  officer  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 

IX.  .Officers  retired  under  the  act  of  Congress  above  recited  are  en- 
titled to  commutation  of  quarters  and  fuel  only  when  assigned  to  duty 
(as  provided  in  section  4th  of  said  act)  at  a  station  without  troopa, 

*  Modified  by  G.  O.  No.  42,  paragraph  IX,  c.  9. 


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where  public  quarters  can  not  be  furnished  in  kind.  Thoy  will  receive 
pay  from  any  post  quartermaster  upon  exhibiting  evidence  of  their  re- 
tirement from  active  service,  and  the  certificate  of  last  payment  requir- 
ed by  paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  28,  and  paragraph  I,  General 
Orders,  No.  126  (1863).    . 

X.  .Soldiers  retired  from  the  service  as  herein  provided,  will  be  fur- 
nished with  descriptive  lists,  which,  in  addition  to  the  usual  history 
given,  will  exhibit  the  fact  that  they  have  been  placed  on  the  retired 
list,  and  designate  the  post  at  which  they  will  be  entitled  to  receive  pay 
and  allowances.  They  will  report  to  the  commandant  of  such  post — 
which  will  be  nearest  their  places  of  residence — and  deliver  to  him  their 
descriptive  lists. 

XI.  .Post  commanders  are  required  to  take  possession  of  descriptive 
lists  of  all  soldiers  reporting  to  them,  and,  from  the  data  therein  given, 
at  the  end  of  every  two  months  to  prepare  muster-rolls,  upon  which 
these  soldiers  will  receive  pay  from  the  post  quartermaster  or  assistant 
quartermaster.  They  will  append  to  each  roll  a  certificate  that  it  has 
been  made  out  in  accordance  with  statements  preseuted  in  descriptive 
lists  of  the  soldiers  on  file  in  his  office. 

XII.  .Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will  issue  necessary 
clothing  to  retired  soldiers  upon  requisitions  made  by  the  commandants 
of  the  posts  at  which  they  are  statiouoi,  taking  their  receipts  upon  re- 
ceipt rolls.  Form  No.  53,  Regulations  for  the  Quartermaster's  depart- 
ment. 

XIII.  .Retired  soldiers  will  have  their  rations  commuted  at$l  23  per 
day,  to  be  paid  by  the  commissary  at  the  post  designated,  under  the 
orders  of  the  commanding  officer. 

XIV..WLen  the  soldier  shall  be  returned  to  his  command,  his  dis- 
ability for  field  service  having  been  removed,  the  post  commander  will 
note  upon  his  descriptive  list  the  dates  to  which  payment  may  have 
been  made  him  on  account  of  pay  and  rations  commuted,  and  the 
articles  of  clothing  issued,  and  return  it  to  him  to  be  delivered  to  his 
company  commander;  or,  if  he  belongs  to  the  non-commissioned  staff, 
to  the  adjutant  of  his  regiment  or  battalion. 

XV.  .The  following  forms  will  be  observed  : 
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ARUT  OP  TBB  COMFEDEBATB  STATES. 

Medical  Certificate  to  Jietire  Invalid  Officer. 

[Under  Act  of  Congress  approved  February  17,  1864.] 

,  of  the regiment, brigade,  having  appear- 
ed before  the  board  for  examination,  we  do  hereby  certify — 

[Here  state  whether  the  officer  is  permanently  disabled,  and  can  not 
perform  duty  in  any  branch  of  the  military  service,  with  a  full  description 
of  the  wound,  injury,  or  disease,  and  the  disabling  efiFects,  and  that  it 
was  received  or  contracted  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  in 
the  line  of  duty.  If  it  is  a  re-examination,  made  periodically,  state 
such  fact.  If  the  invalid,  being  disabled  for  service  in  the  field,  is  fit 
for  other  service,  recommend  him  accordingly.  Should  an  invalid  re- 
tired overcome  the  disability,  recommend  him  for  such  duty  as  he  can 
perform.] 

• ,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Medical  Examining  Board. 
[Place]     Examining  Board. 
[Date] 

(Duplicates.) 


ARMY  OP  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 
Certificate  of  Disability  for  Retiring  of  Invalid  Soldiers. 

[Under  act  of  Congress  approved  February  17,  1864.] 
■: ,  of  Captain 's  company  ( — ),  of  the regi- 


ment,   's  brigade,  enrolled  or  enlisted  by ,  at , 

on  the day  of ,  to  serve .  Be  was  born  in , 

in  the  State  of ,  is years  of  age, feet inches  high, 

■  complexion, eyes, hair,  and  by  occupation  when 

enlisted  a ;  and  having  appeared  before  this  board  for  examina- 
tion, we  do  hereby  certify : 

[Here  state  whether  the  soldier  is  permanently  disabled,  and  can  not 
perform  duty  in  any  branch  of  the  military  service,  with  a  full  descrip- 
tion of  the  wound,  injury,  or  disease,  and  the  disabling  effects,  and  that 
it  was  received  or  contracted  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States 
in  the  line  of  duty.  If  it  is  a  re-examination,  made  at  periods  of  six 
months,  state  such  fact.  If  the  invalid,  being  disabled  for  duty  in  the 
field,  is  fit  for  duty  in  some  department  of  the  military  service,  recom- 


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mend  him  accordingly.  Should  an  invalid  discharged  overcome  the 
disability,  recommend  him  for  such  duty  as  he  can  perform. 

,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Medical  Examining  Board. 
[Plack]     Examining  Board. 
[Date] 

(Duplicates.) 

Form  for  Retiring  a  Soldier. 
[Under  act  to  provide  an  invalid  corps,  approved  Febr'y  17,  1864.] 
To  all  whom  it  may  concern  : 

Know  ye,  that  ,  a  — of  Captain 's  company, 

regiment  of ,  who  was  eulist«dthe day  of , 

one  thousand  eight  hundred  and ,  to  serve ,  is  hereby  hon- 
orably retired  from  military  service,  with  the  pay  and  emoluments  of  a 
in  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 


Said Avas  born  in  ,  in  the  State   of 


years  of  age,  feet  inches   high, complexion, 

eyes, hair,  and  bj'  occupation  when  enlisted  a . 

Given  at ,  this day  of ,  186 — . 


-,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 
-,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 
-,  Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inn^iector-Q eneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,*!  Adjutant  and  iNSHOTOK-GeNERAL's  Office, 

No.  36.  J  RlCHMOXD,  March  19, 1864. 

I-.OflScers  on  inspection  duty,  while  travelling  under  the  immediate' 
orders  of  the  War  department,  will  be  allowed  their  personal  expenses 
(less  the  commutation  value  of  one  ration  per  day)  in  lieu  of  all  allow- 
ances for  fuel,  quarters,  and  forage.  Each  account  must  be  certified  by 
the  officer  receiving  the  payment,  and  will  be  paid  by  any  quarter- 
master. 

II.. Paragraph  166,  General  Regulations,  is  not  construed  to  allow 
certain  commanding  officers  to  grant  themselves  leave.     They  will  not 


absent  themselves  from  their  commands  without  authority  from  this 
office. 

III.  .Paragraph  170,  General  Regulations,  is  hereby  revoked.  Nor 
will  the  commander  of  a  post  grant  leave  to  an  officer,  without  permis- 
sion first  obtained  from  the  general  commanding  the  army  or  depart- 
ment in  which  the  post  may  be  established. 

IV.  .Commanding  generals,  and  other  commanding  officers,  are  pro- 
hibited from  detaching  officers  and  ordering  them  to  duty  or  for  assign- 
ment in  other  commands,  or  beyond  the  limits  of  their  departments  or 
commands,  without  previous  authority  from  this  office.  The  transporta- 
tion allowance  of  an  officer  so  detached  and  ordered  without  previous 
authority  will  be  charged  to  the  officer  giving  the  order. 

v.. Until  exchanged  and  reassembled,  the  officers  and  men  of 
captured*  organizations  will  be  temporarily  assigned  by  the  general 
commanding  the  department  in  which  the  troops  have  been  serving,  to 
deplete  organizations  in  the  service,  or  to  such  other  duty  as  the  com- 
manding general  may  direct.  To  this  end,  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the 
officers  of  the  Conscription  bureau,  in  the  several  states,  to  return  to 
the  general  commanding  the  department  in  which  the  troops  have  last 
served  such  officers  and  soldiers  as  are  now,  or  may  be  hereafter,  ab- 
sent from  duty  on  account  of  the  capture  of  their  commands. 

VI.  .Paragraph  VI,  General  Orders,  No.  13  (current  series),  is  thus 
amended : 

"  In  making  payments  to  soldiers  upon  descriptive  lists,  officers  of  the 
Quartermaster's  department  will  be  careful  to  endorse  thereon  the 
amounts  paid,  and  the  time  for  which  they  have  been  paid,  returning 
the  same  to  them  for  delivery  to  their  company  commanders.  Disburs- 
ing officers  will  file  with  receipts  given  by  soldiers  thus  paid,  a  certifi- 
cate in  each  case,  that  the  descriptive  list  was  according  to  prescribed 
form,  dated  and  subscribed  by  the  officer  commanding  the  company ; 
that  the  station  of  the  company  was  given,  and  that  no  money  was  paid 
the  soldier  except  that  certified  by  the  officer  as  due  from  the  records  of 
the  company. 

VII.. Under"  General  Orders,  No.  142  (1863),  the  Inspector-General 
of  Field  Transportation  is  charged  with  impressing  and  purchasing  field 
transportation  for  the  army.  His  officers  and  agents  will  not  be  inter- 
fered with  by  either  officers  or  soldiers  when  engaged  in  discharging 
that  duty. 

*  Revoked  by  6.  O.  No,  42,  paragraph  VI,  c.  s. 


6§ 

VIII.  .Persons  liable  to  conscription,  who  have  joined  companies  in 
the  local  or  special  service,  will  bo  turned  over  to  enrolling  officers  for 
assignment  to  companies  in  the  general  service. 

IX.  .The  following  is  published  as  supplementary  to  the  schedule  of 
average  cost  of  arms,  parts  of  arms,  and  accoutrements,  as  set  forth  in 
General  Orders,  No.  158,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  De- 
cember 3,  1863  : 

Carbine  (breoch-loading) $75  00 

Carbine  (muzzle-loading) 60  00 

Parts  of  same  (see  prices  of  parts  of  rifle,  model  1855). 

Skeleton  saddles 75  00 

Halter 12  00 

Crupper 3  00 

Stirrupt-leathers 6  00 

Moss  blanket. 4  00 

Halter-roins 5  00 

Headstall 7  00 

Horse-brush 2  00 

Bridle 14  00 

Bit : 2  00 

Girth 5  00 

Stirrups 2  00 

Bridle-reius 7  00 

Spurs 1  50 

Curry-comb 1  25 

Nose-bag 2  50 

Cartridges  of  all  kinds,  each 25 

Caps  of  all  kinds,  each 02^ 

The  price  of  bayonets  is  increased  to  $11  each. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^  Adjdtant  and  Inspkctor-Gekeral's  Office, 

No.  36.  J  Richmond,  March  21,  18G4. 

I.  .Special  attention  is  directed  to  the  90th  Article  of  War,  and  para- 
graph 877,  Army  Regulations,  requiring  the  proceedings  of  general 
courts-martial,  and  orders  respecting  the  sentences  of  such  courts,  to 
be  transmitted,  with  as  much  expedition  as  practicable,  to  the  War  de- 
partment.    The  observance  of  these  rules,  especially  in  capital  caSes 


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and  trials  affecting  the  commissions  of  officers,  also  of  paragraph  871 
of  the  regulations  prescribing  the  manner  of  making  up  and  securing 
the  court  record,  is  enjoined  upon  all  concerned. 

II.. Every  court-martial  record,  which  should  be  kept  distinct  and 
separate  in  each  case,  must  be  endorsed  with  the  name,  rank,  or  de- 
scription of  the  party,  and  the  court  by  which  he  was  tried ;  to  which 
should  be  added  the  action  of  the  reviewing  oflScer,  confirming  or  dis- 
approving the  sentence,  duly  attested  by  his  signature. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gekebal's  Omice, 

No.  37.  f  Richmond,  ilarch  2*2, 1864. 

*I.  .The  attention  of  medical  examining  boards  is  called  to  paragraph 
IV,  General  Orders,  No.  34  (current  series).  Such  boards  have  no  power 
to  retire  an  officer,  but  will  forward  the  certificate  of  disability  (giving 
the  officer  examined  a  duplicate  thereof)  and  the  application,  through 
the  Surgeon-General,  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  that  the 
"certificate  of  retirement"  may  be  issued  from  this  office.  No  other 
certificate  of  retirement  icill  be  respected. 

II.. Each  ofScer  retired  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  will,  imme- 
diately on  the  receipt  of  the  certificate  of  retirement,  as  set  forth  in  the 
preceding  paragraph,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  communicate 
to  this  office  the  military  station  or  post-office  (giving  county  and  state) 
at  which  he  may  be  found.  Whenever  any  permanent  change  is  made 
in  his  location,  he  will  immediately  report  such  change  to  this  office. 

III.. The  certificate  of  retirement,  as  provided  in  paragraph  I,  will 
be  numbered  and  forwarded  to  the  officer  so  retired,  when  he  is  on  duty 
in  the  field,  through  the  genera)  commanding  the  army  or  department, 
to  the  regimeul  or  battalion  to  which  the  oilicer  may  belong.  When  he 
is  absent  from  his  command,  it  will  be  iorwarded  directly  to  hici  address, 
at  the  place  whciu  Lo  uj-pc„iea  oefore  tbc  board  of  examiners  (unless  a 
different  direction  is  .re-.ueeteJ  IJ)  the  oihcer),  and  a  notice  of  the  fact 
will  be  sent  Irom  this  office  to  the  commanding  general. 

*  Modified  by  G.  0.  No.  42.  panigiaiiii  IX.  c.  s. 


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IV.  .When  an  officer  presents  himself  for  re-examination,  in  compli- 
ance with  paragrn^)h  VII,  General  Orders,  No.  34,  it  will  be  the  duty  of 
the  board  examining  to  specify  on  the  new  medical  certificate  the  num- 
ber of  the  certificate  of  retirement,  as  issued  from  this  office. 

V.  .Each  officer  retired  under  the  act,  and  not  assigned  to  duty,  will 
report  by  letter  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office  monthly, 
giving  his  address,  as  required  by  paragraph  167,  Army  Regulations. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


«3ENEKAL  OKDEKS,"»  Adjutam  and  InspEciORGiiNKRAt's  Ophcis, 

'""•  3^-  i  Richmond,  March  23,  1864. 

I..Tho  second  and  third  paragraphs  of  General  Orders,  No.  8,  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector-General's  office,  scries  of  1862,  arc  licrcby  re- 
voked. 

II.  .With  a  view  to  facilitate  the  organization  of  citizens  of  Maryland 
into  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments,  in  accordance 
with  the  act  to  authorize  and  provide  for  the  organization  of  the  Mary- 
land Line,  published  in  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  8,  above  re- 
ferred to,  a  camp  will  be  established  at  Staunton,  Virginia,  to  be  called 
(;amp  Maryland,  and  a  camp  near  Hanover  Junction,  to  be  called  Camp 
Howard. 

III.  .The  troops  now  under  the  command  of  Col.  Bradley  T.  Johnson 
will,  for  the  present,  occupy  Camp  Howard ;  and  all  other  Maryland 
companies,  squadrons,  and  battalions  will,  upon  their  written  applica- 
tion, be  detached  by  commanding  generals  from  their  present  com- 
mands and  ordered  to  proceed,  for  the  purpose  of  being  organized 
into  regiments,  either  to  Camp  Maryland  or  to  Camp  Howard,  as  they 
may  elect. 

rV.  .All  persons  now  in  service  in  other  than  Maryland  companies, 
who  are  or  were,  at  the  commencement  of  the  war,  native  or  adopted 
citizens  of  Maryland,  and  who  desire  to  join  companies  from  their  own 
state,  will,  upon  their  application  in  writing,  with  reliable  evidence  of 
their  citizenship,  addressed  and  sent  directly  to  the  commandant  of 
Camp  Maryland  or  to  the  commandant  of  Camp  Howard,  be  transferred 
to  the  Maryland  Line,  and,  at  their  option,  will  either  be  assigned  to 


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Maryland  companies  now  existing,  or,  provided  the  number  be  suffi- 
cient, organized  into  new  companies,  with  the  privilege  of  electing  com- 
pany Sfficers.  And  persons  now  in  service  in  Maryland  companies, 
who  are  citizens  of  other  states,  will,  upon  their  request  in  writing,  ac- 
companied by  proper  evidence  of  their  citizenship,  be  transferred  by 
commanding  generals  to  any  company  from  their  own  states  in  the 
army  to  which  they  belong. 

V.  .Upon  receipt  of  orders  from  this  office,  making  transfers  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  preceding  paragraph,  commanding  generals  are  di- 
rected to  forward  the  men  so  transferred  to  the  camp  designated,  in 
charge  of  commissioned  officers  ;  and  they  will  furnish  every  possible 
facility  for  the  prompt  movement  of  companies,  squadrons,  and  battal- 
ions, as  directed  in  the  third  paragraph  of  this  order. 

VI.. All  native  or  adopted  citizens  of  Maryland,  who  are  not  now  in 
the  Confederate  service,  will,  upon  application  to  either  of  the  comman- 
dants herein  mentioned,  within  the  next  sixty  days,  be  enlisted  into 
the  Maryland  Line,  and,  at  their  option,  assigned  to  existing  Ma- 
ryland companies  or  organized  into  the  new  companies  hereinbefore 
provided  for. 

VII.  .Major-General  Elzey  is  relieved  from  the  command  of  the  De- 
partment of  Richmond,  and  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Maryland 
Line.  He  will,  for  the  present,  take  immediate  command  of  Camp  Ma- 
ryland. Col.  Bradley  T.  Johnson  will  assume  command  of  Camp 
Howard.  They  will  at  once  proceed  to  carry  out  the  purpose  of  these 
orders. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OKDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genehal's  Office, 

No.  39.  f  Richmond,  March  24, 1864. 


The  following  act  -of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information  of 
those  interested : 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  IMPRESSMENT  OP  MEAT  FOR  THE  USE  OF  THE 
ARMY  UNDER  CERTAIN  CIRCUMSTANCES. 

The   CongrcHs   of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
whenever  the  President  shall  declare  that  the  public  exigencies  render 


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it  necessary,  iinprussiucuts  of  meat  for  tbe  use  of  the  army  may  be 
made  from  any  supplies  that  may  exist  in  the  country,  under  the  ex- 
press condition  that  just  compensation  shall  be  afforded  to  the  owner  of 
the  meat  tak«i^  or  impressed,  and  subjoctcd  to  the  following  restrictions 
and  limitations  : 

Sec.  2.  The  power  to  direct  such  impressment  shall  be  conferred  upon 
the  Secretary  of  War  ;  hut  he  shall  not  reduce  the  supplies  of  any  per- 
son below  one-half  of  the  quantity  usually  allowed  for  the  support 
I.  himself,  his  family,  and  dependents  for  the  year.  Ho  shall  ex- 
ercise the  said  power  by  orders  directed  to  the  ofllcers  or  agents 
1)0  may  emploj',  who  shall  nave  e.xplicit  instructions  as  to  the  mode 
of  its  exoculiou,  and  injunctions  that  the  same  shall  not  be  abused. 

Sec.  o.  That  tliese  orders  shall  direct  that  a  notice  shall  be  given  to 
the  owner. of  the  meat  needed,  his  bailee,  or  other  agent,  declarin'g  the 
quantity  required,  the  price  offered,  the  existence  of  a  necessity,  and 
whether  possession  is  to  be  taken  of  the  same  immediately,  and  with 
whom  the  risk  of  the  safe-keeping  is  to  be  pending  the  negotiation,  and 
in  what  manner  the  compeu.sation  shall  be  settled  in  case  the  offer  is  not 
accepted — service  of  which  notice  shall  be  a  condition  precedent  to  any 
impressment  or  seizure  by  the  impressing  oflScer. 

Sec.  4.  That  upon  the  service  of  this  notice  upon  the  owner  of  any 
meat  liable  to  impressment,  the  owner  shall  hold  the  same,  subject  to 
the  claim  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  just 
compensation  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  act ;  and  if  the 
necessitj-  is  declared  by  the  impressing  officer  to  be  urgent,  he  shall 
deliver  the  possession  to  the  impressing  oflRcer  upon  his  demand, 
who  shall  give  a  receipt  therefor,  as  provided  in  the  sixth  section  of 
this  act. 

Sec.  5.  That  for  the  ascertainment  of  the  quantity  of  meat  liable  to 
impressment  under  this  act.  and  also  of  just  compensation  for  the  same 
where  the  owner  and  the  impressing  officer  can  not  agree,  the  impressing 
officer  shall  appoint  one  loyal  and  disinterested  citizen  of  the  county, 
district,  or  parish  in  which  the  meat  impressed  shall  be  at  the  time  of 
impressment;  and  the  owner  of  the  meat  so  impressed,  his  agent,  or 
other  bailee,  shall  appoint  another,  who  sh&U,  upon  oath,  ascertain  the 
quantity  liable  to  impressment,  and  the  value  of  the  same  at  the  date 
of  the  notice  served  upon  the  party — which  oath  may  be  administered 
by  the  impressing  officer,  and  which  ascertainment  of  the  quantity  and 
value  shall  be  conclusive  evidence  thereof;  and  if  the  assessors  can  not 
agree,  they  may  associate  with  them  a  third  person,  of  like  qualiSca- 
tions,  to  make  said  assessments. 

Sec.  6.  That  whenever  an  impressment  shall  be  made  under  this  act 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  impressing  officer  to  give  an  official  certificate, 
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showing  the  quantity  taken,  the  company,  battalion,  regiment,  or  other 
command  for  whose  use  it  is  required,  the  compensation  to  be  paid,  the 
circumstances  of  necessity  that  existed — which  certificate  shall  be  evi- 
dence of  a  claim  against  the  Confederate  States,  and  shall  be  pi-omptly 
paid  by  the  disbursing  officer  of  the  command  for  which  the  meat  was 
taken,  or  by  the  chief  of  the  bureau  having  charge  of  disbursements  for 
similar  objects.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

I..  The  necessity  for  the  impressment  of  meat  under  the  above  a  ' 
having  arisen,  in  the  opinion  of  the  President,  these  regulations  for  the 
exercise  of  the  power  of  impressment  are  made,  under  the  authority  of 
the  preceding  act  of  Congress,  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

II.. The  power  to  make  impressment  under  this  act  is  conferred  upon 
the  commanding  generals  of  departments,  and  of  armies  in  the  field,  to 
be  exercised  by  officers  specially  designated  by  them  for  that  purpose, 
and  also  upon  the  Chief  of  the  Subsistence  department,  and  such  officers 
of  his  bureau  as  he  may  select. 

II.  .When  any  impressment  of  meat  is  required,  the  impressing  offi- 
cer will  require  a  statement  of  the  supplies  on  hand,  the  number  of  per- 
sons to  be  provided  for,  the  length  of  time  for  which  the  provision  is 
made,  and  will  thereupon,  if  he  shall  conclude  that  there  is  a  cause  for 
impressment,  proceed  to  give  the  notice  required  by  the  3d  section  of 
this  act. 

IV.  .The  officer  making  the  impressments  will  in  all  eases  commence 
by  giving  a  written  or  printed  notice,  which  shall  express  all  the  par- 
ticulars contained  in  the  section  aforesaid,  and  he  will  take  care  not  to 

impress  more  of  the  supplies  of  any  owner  than   the  act  of  Congress 

permits. 

Vi  .If  any  qiwstions  should  arise  as  to  the  quantity  of  the  meat  in 
possession  of  the  owner,  or  whether  a  reasonable  allowance  has  been 
made  under  the  conditions  of  this  act,  or  in  reference  to  the  rate 
of  compensation  to  bo  paid,  the  difierence  will  be  settled  according 
to  the  5th  section  of  the  act.  The  decisions  of  the  arbitrators  ap- 
pointed under  this  section  will  be  conclusive  upon  both  the  impressing 
officer  and  the  owner,  and  the  settlement  will  bo  made  according  to  the 
award. 

VI.. A  report  of  all  impressments  under  this  act,  whether  by  of- 
ficers in  the  field  or  by  officers  of  the  Subsistence  department,  will 
b'=^  made  to  the  Chief  of  the  Burean  of  Subsistence,  by  the  officer  mak- 
ing it. 


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VII.. The  attention  of  officers  in  the  field,  wbo  may  be  required  to 
make  impressments  under  this  act,  is  particularly  directed  to  the  condi- 
tions of  the  6th  section,  and  they  arc  specially  directed  to  conform  in 
all  cases  to  the  same.  Any  deviation  from  this  order  •will  subject  the 
officers  concerned  to  punishment. 

VIII.  .No  impressment  under  this  or  any  other  order  shall  be  made 
of  milch  cows,  or  of  the  breeding  stock  of  any  farm  or  plantation. 

By  order.  ^ 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inepcctor-Gencial. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gknerai.'s  Office, 

No.  40.  \  Richmond,  March  29, 1864. 

I.  .The  enlistment  of  deserters  is  a  serious  evil  in  the  service.  The 
attention  of  the  army  is  therefore  directed  to  the  22d  Article  of  War, 
which  provides  that  "  No  non-commissioned  officer  or  soldier  shtiU  en- 
list himself  in  any  other  regiment,  troop,  or  company,  without  a  regular 
discharge  from  the  regiment,  troop,  or  company  iu  which  he  last  served, 
on  the  penalty  of  being  reported  a  deserter,  and  suffering  accordingly  ; 
.and  in  case  any  officer  shall  knowingly  receive  and  entertain  such  non- 
commissioned officer  or  soldier,  or  shall  not,  after  his  being  discovered 
to  be  a  deserter,  immediately  confine  him,  and  give  notice  4,'acreof  to  the 
corps  iu  which  he  last  served,  the  said  officer  sh.iU  by  a  court-martial  be 
cashiered." 

II.  .A  strict  observance  of  this  law,  and  the  arrest  and  trial  of  all  who 
violate  its  injunctions,  are  required. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  Isspector-General's  Office, 

No.  41.  J  Richmond,  April  C,  1864. 

I.. The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein, 
adopted  by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of 
Viro-inia,  ar^  announced  for  the  information  of  all  cou'cerued;  and  tlt« 


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special  atteutiou  of  officers  and  agents  of  the  government  is  directed 
thereto  :" 

II.  Richmond,  March  31,  1864. 

Hon.  James  A.  Seddoti  : 

Sir  :  In  reviewing  the  schedules  of  prices  for  April,  vfre  invited  the 
co-operatiou  and  aid  of  Mr.  Wm.  B.  Harrison,  and  it  is  just  to  add 
that  the  schedules  received  the  unanimous  approval  of  the  commission- 
ers. We  respectfully  ofiFer  the  accompanying  schedules,  A  and  B,  with 
the  understanding  that  the  prices  arc  to  remain  for  the  month  of  April 
unless,   in  the  interval,  it  should  be  deemed  necessary  to  modify  them. 

The  following  prices  are  to  be  the  maximum  rates  to  be  paid  for  the 
articles  impressed,  in  all  cities  and  usual  places,  of  sale,  and  when  im- 
pressed on  the  farms  or  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid. 

Under  existing  circumstances  we  have  deemed  it  not  only  just,  but 
most  likely  to  favor  increased  production,  that  producers  in  future 
should  not  be  required  to  transport  their  surplus  productions  when  im- 
pressed, but  that  the  agents  of  the  government  should  employ  or  im- 
press the  neighborhood  or  county  wagons  and  teams  to  haul  all  such 
articles,  and  so  divide  the  work  between  the  owners  of  wagons  and 
teams  as  to  be  least  prejudicial  to  those  successfully  engaged  in  agricul- 
ture. 

Schedule  A. 


QUALITY.        DESCRIPTION. 


1  Wheat  ......t- 

2  Flour 

Flour 

Flour 

Flour 

3  Corn 

4  Unshelled  corn 

5  Corn  meal 

6  Rye  ; 

7  Cleaned  oats , 

8  Wheat  bran 

9  Shorts 

10  Brown  stuff 

n  Ship  stuff 

12  Bacon  

13  Salt  pork 

14  Fresh  pork 

15  Lard 

16  Horses  and  mules. 

17  Wool 

18  Wool 

19  Peas 

20  Beans 

21  Potatoes 

22  Potatoes 


Prime. 

Good.., 


Good  .. 
Prime.. 


Good. 


Artillery,  etc.. 


Fat  and 
good 

Good 

Fl^st^claas 
Fair  or 

Blerino  Washed 
Fair  or 

Merino 
Good 


White  or  red... 

Fine 

Superfine 

Extra  sup'fine 

Family 

White  or  yel'w 


Hog  round . 


Irish   . 
Bweet . 


Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  66  lbs. 
Perbnshelof  56  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  56  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  32  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  17  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  22  lbs. 
Perbnshelof  28  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  37  lbs. 

Per  pound 

Per pound  

Per  pound  net  weight 

Per  pound 

Av'ge  price  per  head 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  bushel 

Per  bushel 

Per  bushel 

Per  bushel 


5  5  00 
22  00 
26  00 
26  50 
28  00 
4  00' 

3  95 

4  20 
3  20 

2  50 
50 
70 
90 

1  40 

3  00 

2  60 

2  25 

3  00 

500  00 

3  00 

2  00 

4  00 
4  00 
4  00 
6  00 


joHEDULB  A.— Continucil. 


DESCRIPTION. 


Onions 

Di-UmI  pea<:hos. 
Dried  peaches. 
Dried  apples... 
H;iy,  baled 


Good. 


28  Hay,  baled.  ... 
20  Ilay,  iinbaled. 


Sheaf  oats,  baled 

Sheaf  oats,  unhaled 
Blade  fodder,  baled. 
Blade  fodder,  unb'd. 

Shucks,  baled 

Shucks,  unbilled 

Wheat  straw,  baled 
AVlieat  straw,  imb'd 

Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Pasturage  

Pasturage '. 

Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Salt 

Soap 

Candles 

Vinegar 

AVhiskey 

Sugar 

Moiasses 

Rico 

Coffee 

Tea 

Vinegar 

Pig  iron 

Pig  iron 

Pig  iron 

Bloom  iron 

Smiths'  iron 


Superior  . 
First-rate. 

Good 

Superior  . 
First-rate. 
Good 


Kailroiul  iron I 

Leather 

Leather 

Leather 

Beef  cattl» 

Beef  cattle Superior.. 

Beef  cattle First-rate. 

Salt  beef Good 

Sheep Fair 

.\rmy  woollen  cloth, 

%  yard jOood 

Army  woollen  cloth      ■' 


Armj'  woollen  cloth  I 

6-4  yard j 

Army  woollen  cloth 


Peeled 

Unpeeled 

Peeled 

Timothy 

or  clover 
Orchard  or 

herd  gr.ass 
Orchard  or 

herd  grass 


Per  bushel. 
Per  bushel. 
Per  bushel. 
Per  bushel. 


Per  100  pounds.. 
Per  100  pounds.. 


Interior  ..., 
Near  cities. 


Tallow 

Cider 

Trade 

Brown , 

New  Orleans... 


r.io 

Trade 

Manufactured. 
No.  1  quality... 
No.  2qualit.v... 
No.3  quality... 


Round,  plate, 
and  bar 


riarness 

Solo 

Upper 

Gross  weight.. 


73  Flaunols %l 


10  oz.  per  yd... 
Pro  rata  ns  to 
greater  or  loss 
width  or  wei't. 

20  07,.  per  yd... 
Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  loss 
width  or  wei't. 
6  oz.  per  yard.. 


Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  head  per  month.. 
Per  liead  per  month.. 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs.. 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  tou 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 


Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  pound 

Per  pouud 

Per  pound 

Per  100  pounds.. 
Per  100  pounds.. 
Per  100  pounds.. 
Net  per  pound.. 
Per  head 


Per  vard 


Per  yard  , 


Per  yard 


7s 


Schedule  A. — Contiuucd. 


QUALITY.        DESCRIPTION. 


UUANTITY.  PEICE 


4M  yards  to  lb.  Per 
3%  yards  to  lb.  Per 
3  yards  to  lb...  Per 
6  oz.  per  yard..  Per 
8  oz.  per  yard..  Per 
10  oz.  per  yard  Per 
8U  On  the  above  onuuiorated  cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  as 
weight. 


74  Cotton  shirting....^  jGkiod. 

75  Cotton  shirting....^      '■ 

76  Cotton  sheet'gs...4-4      " 

77  Cotton  osnab'gs...%      " 

78  Cotton  osnab'g8...J^      '• 

79  Cotton  tent  clotlis...      " 


yard  

yard  

yard  

yard 

"yard 

yard  

to  greater  or  less 


Good. 


81  Army  shoes 

82  Shoe  thread 

83  Wool  socks,  men's... 

84  Corn-top  fodder.bl'd 
86  Corn-top  fodder,  un- 

baled 

86  Wheat  chaff,  baled.. 

87  Wheat  chaff,  unb'd.. 

88  Sorghum   molasses..)     "      

89  Pasturage  for  sheep  j     "      

90  Pastuqige  for  sheep  |  Superior ... 

91  Pasturage  for  sheep  1  First-rate.. 


pair 

pound 

pair 

100  pounds.. 


100  pounds 

100  pounds 

100  pounds 

gallon 

head 

head , 

bead 


$  1  11 
1  35 
1  75 
1  50 

1  93 

2  5.1 
widtli  or 

15  00 

3  00 

1  25 

2  40 

1  50 

2  40 
1  50 

20  00 
40 
50 
60 


lu  assessing  the  average  value  of  first-class  artillery  and  wagon  horses 
and  mules  at  $500,  we  designed  that  the  term  should  be  accepted  and 
acted  upon  according  to  its  obvious  common-sense  import.  In  oth^ 
words,  that  they  should  be  selected,  and  then  impressed  accordingly  as 
their  working  qualities  and  adaptation  to  army  service,  together  with 
their  intrinsic  value,  would  warrant  a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering 
them  as  coming  within  the  contemplation  of  the  commissioners  when 
they  assessed  the  average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  government  need- 
ed at  $500.  But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  e.x;igencie8 
would  be  so  urgent  as  to  demand  that  all  horses  at  hand  should  be  im- 
pressed. Yet,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  family  or  extra- 
blooded  horses,  or  brood  mares  of  admitted  hic/h  value,  are  impressed,  we 
respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have  instructions  for- 
warded to  the  impressing  officers  to  propose  and  allow  the  owners  to 
siibsittiUe  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound,  and  .serviceable  horses  or 
mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued  by  competent  and  disinterested 
parties  as  first-class  artillery  horses  or  first-class  wagou  mules. 

The  term  average  value  per  head  is  in  contradistinction  to  a  fi.xed  and 
uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We  supposed  that,  in  impressing 
a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whether  owned  by  several  persons  or  one. 
individual,  that  some  might  be  estimated  at  $300,  and  others  at  different 
advanced  rates,  according  to  their  worth,  up  as  high  as  $700 — thus 
making  an  acerage  value  or  price  for  a  numhcr  of  good,  sound,  and 
efficient  horses  or  mules,  $500  each. 

In  illustration  of  our  views,  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with  only  one 
eye  sound  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  a  first-class  artille- 


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ry  horse,  yet  Ibc  loss  of  one  eye  wouKl  justly  and  considerably  curtail 
his  value.  So  a  horse  from  ten  to  eighteen  years  of  age  might  be 
deemed  in  all  other  particulars  as  a  first-clas"'  artillery  horse,  but  of 
course,  however  efficient  or  able  to  render  good  service  for  a  year  or  so, 
yet  his  advanced  age  would  Jiistlj-  and  materially  impair  his  value. 
Any  horse,  however  he  may  approximate  the  standard  of  a  first-class 
artillery  horse,  must,  according  to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum 
price ;  and  as  few  comparatively  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  there- 
fore are  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so,  of  course,  in  all  other  in- 
stances the  price  should  bo  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfections 
place  them  below  the  standard  of  first-class,  etc. 

Schedule  B — Hire  of  Labor ,  Teams,  Wagont,  and  Drivers. 


Quantity  and  Time.      Price. 


1.  Baling  long  forage 

2.  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur- 

nished by  government 

3.  Hauling 

4.  Hauling  grain 

5.  Hire  of  two-horse   team,   wagon,    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . 

6_.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

7.  Hire    of  four-horse   team,    wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner.. 

8.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by   the 

government 

9.  Hire    of    six-horse    team,    wngon,    .and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner.. 

10.  Hire  of  same,  rations    furnished  by  the 

government 

11.  Hire  of  laborer,   rations   furnished  by 

owner 

12.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

governmen  t 

i;i  Hire  of  same,  r.ations  and  clothing  fur- 
nished by  owner 

14.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 

10.  Hire  of  teamsters,  rations  furnished  by 
government 

16.  Hire   of  laborer,   clothing  and    rations 

furnished  bj-  government - 

17.  Hire  of  same^  clothing  and  rations  fur- 

nished by  owner 

18.  Hire  of  same,  rations  c.'uly  furnished  by 

government 

19.  Hire  of  ox  carts,  team,  and  driver,  ra- 

tions furnished  by  owner 

20.  Hire  of  same,  rations   furnished  by  the 

goverijmt'n  t 


Per  100  pounds .        $0  90 


Per  66  pounds.! 
Per  cwt.  per  mile! 
Per  bus.  per  mile  i 


Per  day. . . 
Per  day... 
Per  day. . . 
Per  day. . . 
Per  day. . . 
Per  day . .'. 
Per  day . . . 
Per  day . . . 
Per  month 
Per  month 
Per  month 
Per  year  . . 
Per  year  . . 
Per  year  . . 
Per  day.  . . 
Per  day. . . 


05 
08 
04 

10 

00 

5 

00 

13 

00 

6 

50 

Ifi 

00 

3 

00 

2 

50 

1 

60 

60 

00 

30 

00 

40 

00 

300 

00 

560 

00 

400 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

•  \        .  80 

Upon  further  consideration,  we  hnve  concluded  to  value  sheaf  oats, 
hay,  and  blade  fodder,  east  of  the  Blue  Ridge  mountains,  when  haled  at 
$5  40  per  hundred  pounds,  and  unbaled  at  $4  50  per  hundred  pounds, 
and  shucks  baled  at  $3  90  per  hundred  pounds,  and  $3  unbaled. 

REVISION  OF  THE  SCHEDULE  OF  FEBRUARY  AND  MARCH 
LAST. 
Since  the  adoption  of  our  last  schedules  for  the  months  of  February 
and  March,  the  finaDcial  bills  passed  by  Congress,  taxing  the  currency, 
have  seriously  impaired  the  value  of  the  old  issues  of  Confederate  Treas- 
ury notes.  '  At  this  juncture  large  numbers  of  horses  and  niiiles  were 
impressed  and  paid  for  in  a  currency  which  was  in  a  few  days  thereaf- 
ter to  be  taxed  thirty-three  and  one- third  per  cent. 

The  board  of  state  ccmmissiiners  having  adjourned,  and  one  of  its 
mtmbers  being  out  of  the  state,  it  could  not  be  convened  in  time  to  re- 
view our  schedules  of  prices.  Under  this  state  of  facts,  we  have  re- 
examined and  rearranged  our  tarifi"  of  prices,  so  far  as  we  have  been 
advised  of  recent  impressments,  proposing,  in  this  mode,  to  remedy  any 
diminution  of  valuation  which  may  have  resulted  from  the  action  of 
Congress  upon  the  currency.  Therefore  we  assess  the  average  value  of 
artillejy  or  wagon  horses  or  mules,  impressed  since  the  jjassage  of  the 
currency  bill  of  the  17th  of  February  last,  at  £600.  This  award  will 
entitle  each  person  to  receive  higher  compensation,  accordingly  as  each 
horse  or  mule  recently  impressed  may  be  considered  as  being  a  first, 
second,  or  third-class  artillery  or  wagon  horse  or  mule,  whether  the  par- 
ties appeal  to  our  board  or  not;  and  the  impressing  agents  and  officers 
should  forthwith  call  on  all  those  persons  of  whom  they  impressed 
horses  and  mules,  and  propose  a  settlement  upon  the  foregoing  basis, 
but  allowing  to  each  person  only  such  prices  as  first,  second,  and  third- 
class  artillery  or  wagon  horses  or  mules  may  be  estimated  at,  assuming 
our  average  appraisement  of  $600  as  a  fair  medium  valuation.  This, 
then,  would  allow  a  maximum  price  of  $800,  and  a  minimum  j^riee  of 
$400,  making  $600  the  average  price — thus  allowing  more  for  first-class 
horses  or  mules,  and  proportionately  less  for  the  inferior,  as  they  may 
fall  below  the  grade  of  first-class.  Payment  of  whatever  amount  niaj' 
be  awarded  to  be  made  in  the  old  issue  of  treasury  notes  as  circulated 
before  the  1st  of  April,  or  else  in  the  new  issue,  but  with  a  deduction  in 
such  cases  of  thirty-three  and  one-thii-d  per  cent,  from  the  additional 
sum  allowed  in  each  case,  E.  W.  Hubard, 

Robert  Gibbonet, 
Wm.  B.  Harrison, 
'  Commissioners  /or  Virginia. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


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49>  All  appeals  and  communications  for  the  Board  of  Commissionera,  should 
bo  addressed  to  D.  S.  Chilton,  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Commissionors  of  the  State 
of  Virginia,  Richmond,  Va. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  Adjutant  and  Insi'kctor-Gf.nkral's  Office, 

No.  42.  )  Richmond,  ^2>»^7U.  1864. 

I.. At  the  end  of  each  month,  monthly  inspection  reports,  in  accord- 
ance with  forms  last  furnished,  will  be  forwarded  to  this  oilice  from  the 
head-quarters  of  the  different  Confederate  States  armies.  These  re- 
ports to  embrace  all  troops,  of  all  arms,  serving  with  each  army.  The 
cover  of  all  documents  relating  to  inspection  duties  will  be  marked,  on 
the  upper  left  hand  corner,  "  Inspecting  department." 

II.. To  secure  more  full  and  complete  information  to  this  depart- 
ment, army  in.-spcctors  will  forward,  with  their  own  reports,  those  of 
corps,  division,  and  brigade  inspectors,  endorsing  the  latter  with  such 
remarks  as  will  iniiieatc  changes  which  have  occurred  since  previous 
reports,  or  give  a  more  clear  and  full  idea  of  the  condition  of  the  army, 
and  the  relative  efficiency  of  its  different  organizations,  and  their  com- 
manders. 

III.  .Thorough  inspections,  under  arms,  of  nil  troops  of  the  armies, 
will  be  made  by  the  inspectors  of  the  different  commands  with  which 
they  are  respectively  serving,  as  follows:  tri-monthly,  of  brigades; 
semi-monthly,  of  divisions;  and  monthly,  of  corps.  Inspectors  at 
army  head-quarters  will  inspect  monthly  so  much  of  the  army  as  their 
other  duties  will  permit,  stating  in  their  reports  the  e.vtent  of  such  per- 
sonal inspections.  To  avoid  harassing  the  troops  by  too  frequent  in- 
spections, the  ranking  insjiectors  will  inspect,  when  practicable,  at  the 
same  time  with  the  subordinate  inspectors,  and  at  the  stated  periods  of 
their  inspections.  At  all  inspections  the  ranking  inspector  will  be  ac- 
compani^  1  ;ind  assisted  by  bis  subordinates  of  the  commands  inspect- 
ed. For  example,  the  corps  inspector  by  the  inspectors  of  the  division 
and  of  the  brigade  to  be  inspected. 

IV.  .The  requisite  inspection  blanks  will  be  furnished  from  this  ofTico 
upon  timely  requisitions,  the  reoeii>t  of  which  will  I'C  acknowledged  by 
army  inspectors,  who  will  look  to  their  proper  distribution. 

V.  .The  Commander  of  each  army  will  have  a  report  of  all  inspectors 
serving  with  it  forwarded  to  this  office,  giving  their  names  in  full,  their 
rank,  and  the  command  with  which  they  are  serving. 


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VI.. The  following  is  substituted  for  paragrapli  V,  General  OrdorB, 
No.  35,  current  serief?,  which  is  hereby  revoked :  Ollicers  of  the  Con- 
scription bureau  will  send  to  the  general  commanding  the  army  or  de- 
partment in  which  the  commands  captured  last  served,  such  officers  and_ 
men  belonging  to  them  as  have  titemselvea  escaped  capture.  The  general 
commanding  will  assign  them  temporarily  to  depleted  organizations, 
or  such  other  duty  as  he  may  direct. 

VII.. Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  86  (1803),  is  modified  to 
this  extent:  The  minimum  number  prescribed  by  law  for  a  company  of 
infantry  is  sixty-four ^}c/ya<e«  ,-  for  a  company  of  cavalry,  si.xty  pr;'- 
vates, 

VIII.  .Soldiers  over  the  age  of  forty-five  years  will  be  discharged 
from  service  in  the  army  at  the  expiration  of  their  present  term  of  en- 
listment. Those  under  eighteen  years  will  also  be  discharged  in  like 
manner  when  the  enlistment  expires,  unless  they  are  at  that  time 
liable  to  conscription. 

IX.  .Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  34,  and  paragraph  I,  Gen- 
eral Orders,  No.  37  (1864),  are  thus  modified:  Medical  examining 
boards  will  forward  the  original  applications  of  olfi  cers  (who  desire  to 
be  retired  under  the  act  to  provide  an  invalid  corps)  and  their  certifi- 
cates to  the  general  commanding  the  army  or  department  to  which  the 
officers  belong.  The  general  commanding  will  forward  them,  with  an 
endorsement  of  his  opinion  in  each  case,  through  the  Surgeon-General, 
to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genera!.  Certificates  of  retirement  of 
officers  will  be  issued  only  from  this  office. 

X..A11  authorities  heretofore  given  to  raise  troops,  or  to  recruit  for 
any  particular  command,  are  hereby  revoked. 

XI.  .The  ordnance  depot  at  Savannah  (heretofore  regarded  as  a  field 
depot,  and  under  the  command  of  the  district  commandijr)  h.iving  as- 
sumed the  proportions  of  an  arsenal,  will  hereafter  bo  designated  as 
the  "  Savannah  Arsenal," 'and,  like  other  arsenals,  will  bo  subject  to  the 
supervision  of  the  Chief  of  Ordaance,  Richmond,  to  whom  its  com- 
manding officer  will  report  directly. 

XII.. Officers  to  whom  soldiers  on  detached  or  detailed  duty  report 
will  take  possession  of  their  descriptive  lists,  and,  in  accordance  with 
instructions  thereon  given,  will  prepare  and  certify  to  the  muster-rolls 
upon  which  they  receive  the  pay  due  them.  Payments  will  be  made 
such  soldiers,  when  in  the  field,  at  the  end  of  every  two  months ;  when 


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at  posts,  at  the  euJ  of  eacli  mouth.  Upon  tlicsc  rolls  annual  settle- 
ments of  clothing  accounts  may  be  made  with  soldiers  on  detailed  duty 
at  posts. 

XIII.. To  prevent  their  detention  on  their  way  home,  soldiers  leav- 
ing the  army  on  furlough  of  indulgence  will,  instead  of  being  furnished 
with  descriptive  lists,  be  paid  at  their  commmds  to  the  close  of  the 
month  preceding  the  dates  of  their  furlougln.  upon  detached  rolls, 
signed  by  their  company  commanders. 

XIV.  .Sick  or  wounded  men  sent  to  hospitals  will  be  paid  as  hereto- 
fore, upon  hospital,  muster,  and  pay  rolls.  Those  who,  on  account  of 
wounds  or  ill  health,  are  permitted  to  go  to  their  homos,  may  be  paid 
upon  descriptive  lists,  by  the  nearest  quartermaster  or  assistant  quar- 
termaster. 

XV.. When  soldiers  are  ordered  to  rejoin  their  commands,  officers 
with  whom  they  have  been  on  duty,  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals  of 
which  they  have  been  inmates,  and  quartermasters  and  assistant  quar- 
termasters paying  those  sick  and  wounded  at  home,  will  (after  carefully 
noting  upon  their  descriptive  lists  payments  made  to  them)  return  such 
soldiers  their  descriptive  lists,  to  be  delivered  to  their  company  com- 
mander, and  will  also  transmit,  through  the  general  commanding  the 
army  to  which  they  belong,  duplicates  of  the  same  to  the  latter. 

XVI.  .The  following  acts  of  Congress  are  published  for  the  informa- 
tion of  the  army  : 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDB  COMPENSATION  KOll  OFFICERS  WHO  .MAY  UF-RUTO- 
PORE  HAVE  PERFORMKD  STAFF  DDTV  UNDER  OKUERS  OP  THEIR 
SUPERIOR    OFFICERS. 

The  Votiffress  of  the  Confederal e  Staten  of  America  do  enact.  That 
when  any  officer  or  ))riviite  of  anj'  legally  constituted  militarj'  organi- 
zation may  have  heretofore,  by  order  of  his  proper  superior  oHicer,  per- 
formed any  staff  duty  appropriate  to  sitoh  command,  he  sh.all  be  enti- 
tled to  receive  pay  for  the  time  he  was  so  engaged  in  the  discharge  of 
such  duties  :  provided,  that  there  was  not  then  present  fit  for  duty  Jiny 
officer  duly  appointed  for  the  discharge  of  the  same.  [Approved  Feb- 
ruary 11,  18R4.] 

AN    ACT    TO    PUOVIDK    TOBACCO    FOR    THE    ARMY. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  America  do  enact,  That 
there  shall  be  furnished  to  every  enlisted  man  in  the  service  of  the  Con- 


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federate   States  one  ration  of  tobacco,  under  such  regulations  as  llie 
Secretary  of  AVar  may  establish.     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

*XVII..The   Couimissary  department  will  carry  out  the  provisions 
of  the  above   act,  in  providing  and  issuing  tobacco  to  enlisted  men. 
The  ration  is  fixed  at  three-quarters  of  a  pound  per  month. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-  Oeneral. 


GENERAL  OBDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  43.  J  ElCHMOND,  April  16,  1864. 

I.  .By  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress  entitled  "An  act  to  im- 
pose regulations  upon  the  foreign  commerce  of  the  Confederate  States, 
and  to  provide  for  the  common  defence,"  approved  February  17, 1864,  the 
exportation  of  cotton,  tobacco,  military  and  naval  stores,  sugar,  mo- 
lasses, and  rice  from  the  Confederate  States,  except  under  such  uniform 
regulations  as  might  be  made  by  the  President,  was  prohibited ;  and 
the  President  was  authorized  to  employ  any  portion  of  the  military 
and  naval  forces  of  the  Confederacy  in  order  to  prevent  the  departure 
of  any  vessels  or  vehicles  that  might  be  employed  in  carrying  on  a 
commerce  in  these  articles  contrary  to  law. 

II.. The  commanding  generals  of  departments  and  districts  will 
issue  orders  and  instructions  to  their  officers  that,  whenever  it  shall 
reasonably  appear  that  any  vessel  or  vehicle  has  been  laden,  in  whole 
or  in  part,  with  any  of  the  said  articles,  for  exportation  or  conveyance 
beyond  the  limits  of  the  Confederacy,  or  to  any  place  within  the  Con- 
federacy nut  under  the  control  of  their  civil  or  military  authorities; 
and  whenever  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  any  of  the  articles  afore- 
said have  been  so  laden,  or  have  been  collected  at  any  place  of  deposit 
with  a  view  to  exportation  or  conveyance  beyond  the  limits  or  lines 
aforesaid,  to  seize  and  detain  the  same,  with  the  vehicles,  teams,  and 
slaves  employed,  that  investigation  may  be  had  according  to  the  con- 
ditions of  the  act  aforesaid  .and  these  orders,  unless  the  owner  or  his 
agent,  or  bailee,  has  a  permit  from  a  collector  of  the  revenue,  or  from 
an  officer  of  this  department,  who  may  be  authorized  to  grant  such 
licenses. 

*  Increased  to  a  pound,  G.  0.  No.  45,  paragraph  X. 


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III.. The  conditions  upon  which  the  trailc  by  sea  or  overliinil  to 
Mexico  can  be  carried  on,  have  been  determined  by  the  regulations 
of  the  President,  and  any  export.'ition  or  attempt  to  export  any  of  the 
articles  aforesaid  contrary  to  those  regulations,  will  authorize  the  deten- 
tion of  the  vessel  or  other  instruments  of  transport. 

IV.. When  a  deposit  of  the  prohibited  articles  is  made  at  a  point 
from  which  easy  access  to  the  lines  of  the  enemy  can  be  obtained,  or 
are  on  a  vehicle  apparently  on  the  way  to  their  lines,  or  in  the  vicinity 
thereof,  or  when  the  owner  is  not  a  permanent  rcsident-of  the  place 
where  the  .articles  are  found,  and  from  which  they  can  eagily  be  trans- 
ported beyond  the  lines,  or  is  a  auspicious  person,  detention  of  the 
articles  and  vehicles,  for  inquiry,  will  be  made. 

v.. All  vehicles,  animals,  slaves,  or  other  means  of  transportation, 
and  all  cotton  or  other  articles  that  may  be  seized,  whether  by  the  offi- 
cers of  the  revenue  or  by  military  authorities,  for  any  violation  of  law 
or  of  these  regulations,  shall  be,  without  any  waste,  spoliation,  impress- 
ment, or  injury  of  any  kind,  forthwith  conveyed  and  delivered  to  the 
nearest  marshal  or  deputy  marshal  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  a 
detailed  receipt  taken  from  him,  setting  forth  a  full  description  of  the 
property  seized  and  delivered  to  him  for  safe  custody.  And  it  shall  bo 
the  duty  of  said  marshal  or  deputy  marshal  to  keep  the  property  so 
surrendered  in  safe  custody  until  the  further  order  of  the  judge  or  a 
commissioner  of  a  district  court  of  the  Confederate  States  having  juris- 
diction of  the  subject-matter;  and  the  said  marshal  or  deputy  mar.shal 
shall  forthwith,  upon  the  receipt  by  him  of  the  property  seized,  give  in- 
formation to  the  collector  of  the  district  or  to  the  district  attorney,  or 
to  both,  if  practicable,  of  all  the  facts  in  relation  to  the  seizure  of  the 
property  and  its  delivery  to  him  for  safe-keeping. 

VI.. No  military  authority  shall  presume,  under  any  circumstances, 
to  seize  property  while  being  carried  under  the  pro^'isions  of  the  law 
and  of  these  regulations,  for  any  other  cause  than  a  violation  of  said 
provisions;  nor,  in  case  of  seizure,  to  dispose  of  the  property  seized  in 
any  other  manner  than  that  prescribed  in  the  foregoing  regulation. 
But  in  case  where  there  is  great  risk  of  the  property  falling  into  the 
hands  of  the  enemy,  it  shall  be  competent  for  the  proper  military 
authorities  to  require  the  licensed  carrier  to  suspend  his  trip  till  the 
danger  be  passed,  or  to  pursue  a  different  route  from  that  originally 
designated,  or  even,  in  cases  of  imminent  danger,  to  abandon  the  trip. 

V . .  InfonnatioD  will  be  given,  from  lime  to  time,  fromthis  depurlmeut 


f^6 

to  the  commanding  generals,  of  the  couditious  iju  which  traDsjiortation 
by  land  he  made. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Intjiector-Ooneral. 


OKNBRAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  44.  _r  Richmond,  April  29, 18(34. 

*I.  .The  number  of  general  staflF  officers,  and  the  grade  of  each,  allowed 
to  the  several  commands  in  the  field,  are  established  as  follows  : 

1.  To  an  army  composed  of  two  or  more  corps — A  senior  assistant 
adjutant  and  inspector-general,  and  an  assistant  adjutant  and  inspect- 
or-general, not  to  exceed  the  grade  of  colonel,  each  of  whom  may  have 
two  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector-generals — one  not  to  exceed  the 
grade  of  lieutenant-colonel,  and  the  other  of  major.  One  of  the  assist- 
ants to  the  senior  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector-general,  selected 
with  a  view  to  his  special  qualifications  for  the  duty,  will  be  charged 
with  the  examination  of  court-martial  records.  A  surgeon,  as  medical 
director,  who  may  be  assisted  by  one  other  snrgeon.  A  surgeon,  as 
medical  inspector. 

2.  To  an  army  corps — A  senior  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector  gen- 
eral, and  an  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector-general,  not  to  exceed  the 
grade  of  lieutenant-colonel — each  of  whom  may  have  one  assistant  ad- 
jutant and  inspector-general,  not  to  exceed  the  grade  of  major.  A 
surgeon,  as  medical  director  and  inspector. 

3.  To  a  division — A  senior  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector-general, 
and  an  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector-general,  not  to  exceed  the 
grade  of  major.  A  surgeon,  as  chief  surgeon  and  inspector,  who  will 
also  have  charge  of  the  field  infirmary. 

4.  To  a  brigade — An  assistant  adjiuant  and  inspector-general,  of  the 
grade  of  captain.  A  brigade  quartermivster  and  a  brigade  commissary, 
each  of  the  grade  of  major,  as  now  authorized  by  law.  The  senior  sur- 
geon will  act  as  brigade  surgeon  and  inspector ;  he  will  also  have 
charge  of  the  field  infirmary,  and  perform  at  the  same  time  his  duties  as 
regimental  surgeon. 

5.  Each  general  oflScer  will  have  the  aides-de-camp  allowed  by  law — 
one  for  a  brigadier-general,  and  two  for  all  other  general  oflicers. 

6.  Cavalry  divisions  and  brigades  may  each  have  an  assistant  adju- 

*  See  act  organising  general  staff,  approved  June  14, 1S64,G.  0.  No.  63, 1  [23],  c.  8. 


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taut  and  inspcctor-gtinrral,  not  tc  exceed  the  grade  of  inajcr,  in  tiddi- 
tion  to  the  number  allowed  infantry  divisions  and  brigades. 

11.  .Senior  assistant  adjutant  and  inspcctor-geticvals,  nnd  iissistant 
adjutant  and  inspector-generals,  may  be  required  to  nltcrnate  their 
duties. 

III.. The  number  and  grade  of  the  preceding  general  staft' officers 
attached  to  the  head-quarters  of  a  military  department  will  be  assimi- 
lated, according  to  the  above  scale,  to  the  number  of  troops  constituting 
the  military  force  in  the  department.  Special  assignments^,  in  addition, 
may  be  made  by  the  War  department,  when  ilie  extent  of  country,  and 
nature  and  scope  of  duties,  may  require  it. 

IV.. The  assistant  adjutant  and  inspector-generals  will  not  be  of 
higher  grade  than  is  herein  designated.  Should  the  general  prefer  an 
ofScer  having  a  lower  grade,  he  may  be  assigned  to  duty  with  the  com- 
mand. 

V.  .C4enoral  officers  will  report  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General 
all  ofiBcers  of  the  several  staff  departments  now  serving  in  their  respec- 
tive commands,  and  will  at  the  same  Jime  recommend  for  reassignment 
such  as  may  be  required  under  the  provisions  of  this  order. 

VI.  .All  assignments  of  general  staff  officers  will  be  made  by  order 
from  this  office,  and  they  will  not  be  changed  except  by  like  authority. 

VII.  .Commands  will  not  be  allowed  a  greater  number  of  staff  offi- 
cers than  is  herein  established  :  nor  will  officers  of  the  line  be  assigned 
to  staff  duty  without  special  authority.  Should  it  bo  deemed  iu suffi- 
cient for  the  transmission  of  orders  on  the  battle-field,  couriers  and 
guides  (authorized  in  General  Orders,  No.  17,  last  series)  will  bo  em- 
ployed by  general  officers,  who  will  announce  them  in  orders  as  persons 
accredited  to  convey  their  instructions  and  other  communications. 

VIII.  .Vacancies  will  be  filled  by  selection  from  the  officers  of  the 
department  in  which  they  occur. 

IX.  .These  orders  being  confined  to  the  general  staft'  proper,  the  or- 
ganization of  the  other  departments  will  not  be  affected  by  them. 

X.  .Promotions  in  the  general  staff  of  the  army  will  be  by  selection, 
and  not  by  seniority,  except  in  cases  of  known  competency  for  higher 
grade. 

By  order.  B.  COOPER, 

At^utant  and  InsptciorQencral. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector- General's  Office, 

No.  45.  j  Richmond,  May  2, 1864. 

I.  .To  prevent  straggling  in  the  army,  commanding  officers,  upon  the 
rt;ceipt  of  orders  to  move  from  one  command  to  another,  will  forward 
to  the  general  commanding  to  whom  he  is  ordered  to  report  a  field  re- 
turn, which  will  exhibit  the  present  strength  of  their  commands.  When 
their  destination  is  reached  a  like  return  will  be  made  to  the  saibe 
commander,  upon  which  the  number  and  names  of  the  absentees,  and 
the  cause  of  their  absence,  will  be  stated.  Similar  returns  will  be  for- 
warded to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General.  Officers  will  be  held 
strictly  accountable  by  commanding  generals  for  any  straggling  that 
may  occur  with  their  troops. 

II.  .Special  attention  is  called  to  the  appropriation,  by  impressment, 
of  horses  for  cavalry  service.  It  is  without  warrant  of  law,  and  will 
not  be  allowed  under  any  circumstances  whatever.  Commanding 
generals  and  inspecting  officers  will  promptly  report  to  this  office  any 
violation  of  this  order. 

III.  .Prisoners  captured  south  of  Richmond  will  be  sent  direct  to  An- 
dersouville,  Sumter  county,  Georgia. 

IV.. Special  agents,  to  make  purchases  or  secure  shipment  of  sup- 
plies, will  not  be  sent  to  any  foreign  port,  except  in  cases  of  most  ur- 
gent necessity,  of  which  necessity  report  will  be  made  immediately  to 
the  Secretary  of  War.  All  purchases  will  be  made  by  agents,  under 
orders  from  the  Secretary  of  War ;  or  by  officers  charged  with  the  ex- 
port and  importation  of  cotton  and  purchase  of  foreign  supplies ;  or  by 
officers  or  agents  acting  under  express  authority  from  the  general  com- 
manding the  trans-Mississippi  department. 

V.  .All  horses  impressed  by  the  government,  sold,  or  in  any  manner 
assigned  to  officers,  will  be  immediately  restored  to  the  Quartermaster's 
department,  to  be  appropriated  to  the  public  service,  as  contemplated 
by  law.  Such  sales  and  assignments  by  order  of  a  commanding  gen- 
eral are  prohibited,  and  will  not  be  sanctioned. 

VI.  .Every  officer  hereafter  appearing  in  behalf  of  a  prisoner  on  trial 
before  a  military  court  or  court-martial,  will  do  so  only  upon  the  condi- 
tion and  understanding  that  he  is  under  a  pledge  of  honor  that  he  has 
not  and  will  not  receive  compensation  therefor. 

VII.  .The  Bureau  of  Couscription  will  proceed  at  once  to  organize 
into  companiee,  and  cause  to  he  aiuBtiered  into  Bernce,  the  reserve  forcet 


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in  the  several  states,  enrolled  in  pursuance  of  General  Orders,  No. 
33,  Adjutaut  and  Inspector-General's  office,  current  series.  For  this 
purpose,  district  enrolling  officers  are  authorized  to  act  as  mustering 
and  inspecting  officers.  They  will  superintend  the  election  of  company 
officers,  and  forward  the  muster-rolls,  certified  by  them,  with  the  certifi- 
cates of  election,  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for  the  state  in  which 
such  companies  may  be  organized,  to  bo  by  him  turned  over  to  the 
general  commanding  the  reserve  forces. 

VIII.  .Upon  receiving  the  muster-rolls,  the  general  commanding  the 
reserve  forces  will  issue  orders  placing  in  commissiou  and  upon  duty 
the  officers  named  iu  the  certificates,  if  competent;  and  reserving  copies, 
will  forward  the  original  rolls,  with  certified  copies  of  their  orders  en- 
closed, to  this  bureau  for  file.  If  there  be  reason  to  doubt  the  compe- 
tency of  an  officer  elect,  his  qualificatinns  and  fitness  for  commission 
will  be  inquired  into  and  reported  upon  by  a  board  to  be  convened  by 
the  general  commanding,  in  accordance  with  General  Orders,  No.  39, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  series  of  1862. 

IX.. Each  company  of  infantry  must  consist  of  at  least  sixty-four 
privates:  of  cavalry,  sixty  privates  ;  of  artillery,  eighty-four  privates. 
The  muster  into  service  of  new  companies  in  the  reserve  forces,  having 
a  less  number  of  privates,  is  positively  prohibited. 

X.  .Paragraph  XVII,  General  Orders,  No.  42  (current  scries),  is  thus 
amended  : 

The  tobacco  ration  issued  to  cnlisteii  ueu  will  be  one  pound  per  month. 
By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inejiector-Oeneral. 


GB^fERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspectob-General'b  Office, 

No.  46.  J  Richmond,  May  4, 1864. 

I.. At  a  General  Court-Martial,  convened  by  Special  Orders,  No.  21, 
current  series,  Adjutant  and  Inspeetor-Gener-il's  oltice,  was  arraigned 
and  tried  : 

Miijor-Gencral  L.  McLaws,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  following  charge  and 
specifications  : 

Charge. — Neglect  of  duty,  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  mili- 
tary discipline. 

Spe'  ificntion  1st. — In  this:  that  Major-General  L.  McLaws,  being  in 
command  of  a  division  of  the  Confederate  forces  near  Knoxville,  Ten- 
nessee, and  being  ordered  by  his  commanding  officer,  Lieutonaut-Oon- 
8 


!)0 

eral  J.  Longstreet,  to  advance  his  line  of  sharp-shooters,  at  dark  on  the 
night  of  the  28th  of  November,  to  within  good  rifle-range  of  the  ene- 
my's works,  80  as  to  give  his  sharp-shooters  play  upon  the  enemy  behind 
his  works — it  lieiug  part  of  n  plan  of  attack  that  the  .sharp-shooters 
should  engage  the  enemy  behind  his  works  along  our  entire  line,  while 
an  assault  was  made  upon  one  of  the  enemy's  forts — did  fail  to  arrange 
his  line  of  sharp-shooters  so  as  to  meet  this  view^  and  did  allow  a  por- 
tion of  the  rifle-pits  to  be  sunk  under  a  hill,  entirely  out  of  view  of 
the  fort  aforesaid,  thus  failing  to  give  iiis  assaulting  columns  the  pro- 
tection of  the  lire  of  his  sharp-shooters  at  this  point  during  their 
advance  and  attack. 

Spec.ificatiou  2d. — lu  this;  that  the  aforesaid  Major-Gencral  L. 
McLa>vs,  being  ordered  by  his  commanding  officer,  Lieutenant-Gen- 
eral Longstrcot,  to  arrange  assaulting  columns  of  three  of  bis  bri- 
gades, and  to  attack' the  enemy's  fort  at  the  northwest  angle  of  Lis 
works,  at  dawu  of  day  oh  the  20tb  of  November,  did  fail  to  organize  a 
select  body  of  men  to  lead  in  the  assault,  as  is  customary  in  such 
attacks,  and  did  allow  his  three  brigades  to  itdvanec  to  the  attack 
without  definite  and  .specific  instructions  for  the  leading  columns,  and" 
ibr  the  troops  to  enter  the  fort,  which  are  cjseutial  to  succei-s  in  such 
attacks. 

SpecijicatioH  'M. — In  this:  that  the  aforesaid  Major-General  L, 
McLaws,  being  ordered  to  assault  the  enemy's  position  at  the  north- 
west angle  of  his  works,  at  daylight  on  the  29th  of  November,  did 
make  his  attack  ujion  a  point  where  the  ditch  was  impassable,  and  did 
fail  to  provide  any  of  his  a-saultin.:;  columns  with  ladders  or  other 
means  of  entering  the  enemy's  works,  and  did  fail  to  inform  his 
officers  that  the  ditch  on  the  west  side  of  the  fort  was  but  a  slight 
obstacle  to  his  infantry,  and  that  the  fort  could  be  entered  from  that 
side  with  but  little  delay — thus  failing,  in  the  details  of  his  attack, 
to  make  the  arrangements  essential  to  success.  All  this  near  Knox- 
ville,  Tennessee,  on  or  about  the  28th  and  29th  days  of  November,. 
1863. 

II.  •  Findinyx  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

After  mature  deliberation,  the  Court  find  the  accused,  Major-Gencral 
L.  McLaws,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  as  follows : 

Of  the  1st  Specification  :  Not  Guilty:  as,  though  one  part  of  the  line 
of  rifle-pits  was  out  of  view  of  the  fort,  yet  the  order  requiring  the 
lino  of  sharp-shooters  to  be  advanced  so  as  to  give  the  assaulting  col- 
umns the  protection  of  their  fire,  was  substantially  complied  with. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  :  Not  Guilty:  though  no  select  bodies  of  men 
were  organized  to  lead  in  the  assault,  yet  organizations  already  exists 
ing  were  selected  for  tluil  purpose. 


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Of  the  5d  Specification  :  Gnilty  of  so  much  of  the  third  specification 
B8  relates  to  his  not  providing  means  of  crossing  tho  ditch,  and  in  this, 
of  failing,  in  the  details  of  his  attack,  to  make  the  arrangements 
essential  to  his  success. 

or  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  the  Court  do,  therefore,  sentence  the  accused,  the  said  Major- 
Qeneral  L.  McLaws,  to  he  suspended  from  rank  and  command  for 
sixty  days. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  the  Court  that  there  are  many  circumstances 
showu  by  the  evidence  which  exonerates  Major-General  L.  McLaws 
from  any  high  degree  of  criminality  in  his  failurtj  to  provide  the  ordi- 
nary means  of  crossing  the  ditch.  He  had  many  reasons  for  consider- 
ing it  a  slight  one,  and  was  encouraged  in  this  belief  by  the  opinion  of 
those  officers  in  the  army  whose  opinions  should  have  had  the  most 
weight  with  him.  The  Court  acquit  Major-General  McLaws  of  any 
deliberate  purpose  to  fail  in  any  duty  devolved  upon  him  ;  but  it  is 
their  opinion  that  his  only  fault  was  in  failing  to  appreciate  the  full 
weight,  and,  they  may  say,  the  almost  fearful  extent,  of  the  responsi- 
bility resting  upon  him  as  the  director  of  an  assaulting  column. 

.11.. The  Court  was  convened  by  order  of  the  War  department. 
From  the  record  it  appears  that  the  Court  adjourned  on  tho  13th  of 
February,  1864,  at  Morristowu,  to  meet  at  New  Market  on  the  16th  of 
the  same  month  ;  and  on  the  same  day,  in  accordance  with  the  sug- 
gestion of  Lieuteuaut-General  Lnng.street,  reassembled,  and  in  the 
absence  of  two  members  of  the  Court  who  had  voted  at  the  previous 
session,  and  of  the  accused,  adjourned  indefinitely.  The  record  fur- 
ther shows  that,  after  the  Court  had  been  organized,  a  leave  of  absence 
was  granted  for  thirty  days,  by  Lieutenant-General  Longstreet,  to 
Brigadier-General  Humphreys,  a  member  of  the  Court,  under  tho 
direct  orders  of  the  AVar  department,  and  an  important  witness.  With- 
out reference  to  the  merits  of  the  case,  these  irregularities  are  fatal  to 
the  record. 

III.. The  finding  of  the  Court  upon  the  third  specification  is  not 
sustained  by  the  evidence.  The  witnesses  attest  tho  fact  that  the  ditch 
at  the  northwest  angle  of  the  fort,  where  the  atttt,ck  was  made,  was  not 
more  than  four  and  a  half  feet  deep  by  eight  to  ten  feet  wide,  and  that 
there  was  no  necessity  for  artificial  means  to  cross  it.  There  could  not, 
therefore,  bo  guilt  in  having  failed  to  provide  such  means.  Moreover, 
tho  finding  is  defective  in  not  responding  to  the  material  allegation  iu 
the  specification,  that  the  accused  "failed  to  inform  his  officers  that 
th'b  ditch  on  the  west  side  of  the  fort  was  but  little  obstacle  to  his 
infantry,  and  that  the  fort  coulil  l)e  easily  entered  from  that   side  with 


92 

but  little  delay."  The  Court  should  have  taken  cognizance  of  this 
allegation,  and  found  upon  it  either  for  or  against  the  accused.  The 
finding  was  easy  to  be  determined,  since  it  appears  from  the  evidence 
that  the  ditch  on  the  west  side  was  '•'  twelve  to  thirteen  feet  deep." 
There  can  not  be  guilt  in  having  omitted  to  make  statements  which 
would  not  have  been  true.  The  allegation  in  the  third  specification, 
that  the  accused  "  failed,  in  the  details  of  attack,  to  make  arrange- 
ments essential  to  success,"  was  evidently  introduced  as  a  conclusion 
to  previous  allegations,  and  was  not  issuable  in  itself.  The  Court 
erred  in  finding  upon  it;  and,  moreover,  the  finding  is  not  sustained  by 
the  evidence. 

IV.  .The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  of  the  Court  are  disap- 
proved. Major-General  McLaws  will  at  once  return  to  duty  with  his 
command. 

v.. The  Court-Martial  of  which  Major-General  S.  B.  Buekuer  is 
Presidont  i.s  hereby  dissolved. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Liii2}eetor- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "i  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  47.  J  Richmond,  May  6, 1864. 

I.. The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein, 
adopted  by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of 
Virginia,  are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  concerned;  and  the 
special  attention  of  olficevs  and  agents  of  the  government  is  directed 
thereto : 

KiCHJiOND,  Ya.,  May  4,  1864. 
Hon.  James  A.  Seddon  : 

Sir  :  In  reviewing  the  schedules  of  prices  for  May  and  June,  we  invit- 
ed the  co-operation  and  aid  of  Mr.  Wia.  B.  Harrison,  and  it  is -just  to 
add  that  the  schedules  received  the  unanimous  approval  of  the  com- 
missioners. 

We  respectfully  offer  the  accompanying  schedules,  A  and  B,  with 
the  understanding  that  the  prices  are  to  remain  for  the  months  of  May 
and  June,  unless,  in  the  interval,  it  should  be  deemed  necessary  to 
modify  them. 

The  following  prices  are  to  be  the  maximum  rates  to  be  paid  for  the 
articles  impressed,  in  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when 
impressed  on  the  farms  or  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid. 


93 

Under  existing  circumstances,  we  have  deemed  it  not  only  just  but 
most  hkely  to  favor  increased  production,  that  producers  in  future 
should  not  be  required  to  transport  their  surplus  productions  when 
impressed,  but  that  the  agents  of  the  government  should  employ  or 
impress  the  neighborhood  or  county  wagons  and  teams  to  haul  all 
such  articles,  and  so  divide  the  work  between  the  owners  of  wagons 
and  teams,  as  to  bo  least  prejudicial  to  those  successfully  en<ragc(l  iu 
agriculture.  .  °  *= 

Schedule  A. 


1  Wheat Prime 

2  Flour  Good 

Flour 

Flour 

Flour 

3  Corn... Prime 

4  Unshelled  corn 
6  Cnrn  nieftl 

6  Kye 

7  Cleniieil  oats.... 

8  Wheat  bran  .... 

9  .Shciits 

10  Brown  stuff  .... 

11  Ship  stuff. 

12  Bacon 

13  Salt  pork 

14  FroBh  pork 


16  L.ird 

16  Horses  and  mules.. 

17  Wool 


18  Wool- 


Good... 
Prime , 


Good. 


White  or  red. 

Fine 

Superfine 

Extra  sup'fino 

Family 

White  or  yel'w 


19  Peas 

20  Beans ,. 

21  Potatoes 

22  Potatoes 

23  Onions 

24  Dried  peaches.. 

25  Dried  po-iches.. 

26  Dried  apples.. 

27  Hay,  f)aled  


28  Hay,  baled .... 

29  Hay,  unlialcd.. 


Fat  and 
good 

Good 

First-class 
Fair  or 

Merino 
Fair  or 

Merino 
Good 


Hog  round., 


Artillery,  etc. 

Washed   

tJn  washed 


Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  barrel  of  196  lbs. 
Per  b.arrol  of  196  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  56  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  5B  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  66  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  32  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  17  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  22  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  28  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  37  lbs. 

Per  pound 

Per  pound , 


Irish... 

Sweet . 


30  Sheaf  oats,  baled 

31  Sheaf  oats,  unbaled... 

32  Blade  fodder,  baled... 

33  Blade  fodder,  unbaled 

34  Shucks,  baled 

35  Shucks,  unbaled 

30  Wheat  straw,  baled... 
37  Wlieat  straw,  unbal'd 

3,S  Pasturage 

39  P.i^tnrage 


Peeled 

Unpeeled..., 

Peeled 

Timothy 

or  clover 
Orchai-d  or 

herd  grass 
Orchard  of 

herd  grass 


Per  pound  net  weight 

Per  pound..; 

Av'ge  price  per  head 

Per  pound 


Per  pound., 
Per  bushel.. 
Per  bushel.. 
Per  bushel.. 
Per  bushel.. 
Per  bushel.. 
Per  buihol.. 
Per  bushel.. 
Per  bushel.. 


Per  100  pounds  . 
Per  100  pounds  . 


Sui)«rior... 


Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

: I  Per  100  pounds 

:Per  100  pounds 

■• Per  100  pounds 

Interior Per  head  per  month.. 

Per  head  per  month.. 


$  5  00 
22  00 

25  00 

26  50 
28  00 

4  00 

3  95 

4  20 
3  20 

2  50 
50 
70 
90 

1  40 

3  00 

2  60 

2  26 

3  00 

500  00 

3  00 

2  00 
12  00 
12  00 

5  00 
8  00 
5  00 
8  00 

4  50 

5  00 

3  90 
3  90 

3  00 

4  40 
3  50 
3  90 
3  00 
2  60 
1/70 

2  20 
1  30 

3  00 

4  00 


ft4 


Schedule  A. — Continued. 


QUAIITT.    I     DESCRIPTION'. 


40  Pasturage.... 

41  Pasturage.... 

42  Pasturage.... 

43  Pasturage.... 

44  Salt 

45  Soap 

46  Candles 

47  Vinegar 

48  Whiskey 

49  Sugar 

50  Molasses 

51  Rice 

52  Coffee 

53  Tea 

64  Vinegar 

65  Pig  iron 

56  Pig  iron 

.57  Pig  iron 

58  Bloom  iron... 
69  Smiths'  iron  , 


First-rate. 

Good 

Sxiperior.. 
First-rate. 
Good 


Interior 

Near  cities., 


60  Eaihoad  iron "     

61  Leather ■<     

62  Leather  '      "      

63  Leather |      <•     

64  Beef  cattle !      "     

65  Beef  cattle Superior... 

66  Beef  cattle I  First-rate.. 

67  Salt  beef Good 

68  Sheep iFair 

69  Army  woollen  cloth,  | 

%yard Good 

70  Army  woollen  cloth.. 


71  Army  woollen  cloth, 

6-4  yard  

72  Army  woollen  cloth. 


73  Flannels % 

74  Cotton  shirting % 

75  Cotton  shirting % 

76  Cotton  sheet'gs 44 

77  Cotton  osnab'gs % 

78  Cotton  osnab'gs ^ 

79  Cotton  tent  cloths... 

80  On  the  above  enumerated  cotton 

weight. 

81  Army  shoes Good. 

82  Shoe  thread 

83  Wool  sucks,  men's 

84  Corn-top  fodder,  baled 

85  Corn-top  fodder,   un- 

baled 

86  Wheat  chaff,  baled  ... 

87  "VVheat  chaff,  unbaled 

88  Sorghum  molasses  ... 

89  Pasturage  for  sheep...  

90  Pasturage  for  sheep..,  j Superior... 

91  Pasturage  for  sheep... ,First-rato.. 


Tallow 

Cider 

Trade 

Brown 

New  Orleans. 


Rio 

Trade 

Manufactured.. 
No.  1  quality... 
No.  2  quality... 
No.  3  quality... 


Round,  plate, 
and  bar 


Harness 

Sole 

Upper , 

Gross  weight .. 


Per  head  per  month. 
Per  head  per  month. 
Per  head  per  month. 
Per  head  per  month. 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs. 

Per  pound ... 

Per  pound 

Per -gallon 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  jjound 

Per  gallon 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 


Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  100  pounds.. 
Per  100  pounds.. 
Per  100  pounds.. 
Net  per  pound... 
Per  head 


10  oz.  per  yard  I  Per  yard... 
Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 
width  or  wei't.. 

20  oz.  per  yard  I  Per  yard... 

Pro  rata  as  to! 

greater  or  less' 

width  or  wei't.  I 

6  oz.  per  yard.. j  Per  yard... 

41^  yards  to  lb.  j  Per  yard.. 

3^  yards  to  lb.  Per  yard.. 

3  yards  to  lb... 

6  oz.  per  yard.. 

8  oz.  per  j'ard.. 


Per  yard 

Per  yard 

^..  J Per  yard 

10  oz.  per  yard'Per  yard_ 

cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater  or  less 


%    5  00 

5  00 

6  00 

7  00 
5  00 

1  00 
3  00 

2  00 
10  00 

3  00 
25.00 

20 

3  00 

7  00 

50 

350  00 

314  00 

278  00 

716  00 

1.030  00 

425  00 

3  90 

3  60 

4  20 
20  00 
25  00 
30  00 

1  50 
30  00 

5  00 


Per  pair 

Per  pound 

Per  pair 

Per  100  pounds. 

Per  100  pounds. 
Per  100  pounds.. 
Per  100  pounds.. 

Per  gallon 

Per  he,ad 

I'l-rUead 

Hej'  head 


4  00 

1  n 

1  35 
1 75 

1  50 

1  93 

2  53 
width  or 

. !  15  00 

.1  3  00 

.1  1  25 

.1  2  40 

.  1  50 

2  40 
1  50 

.        20  00 
.1  40 

.1       '     60 


III  assessing  the  average  value  of  first-class  iirtillery  and  wagon 
horses  and  mules  nt  $500,  wo  dosiguod  that  the  torui  should  be  accept- 
ed and  acted  upon  according'  to  its  obvious  common-sense  import.  Tn 
other  words,  that  thoy  should  he  selected,  and  then  impressed  accord- 
ingly as  their  working  qualities  and  adaptation  to  army  service,  to- 
gether with  their  intrinsic  vnhie,  would  warrant  a  judicious  purchaser 
in  considering  them  as  coming  within  the  contemplation  of  the  com- 
missioners when  they  assessed  the  averngc  value  of  such  horses  as  the 
government  needed  at  $500.  But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when 
the  public  exigencies  would  be  so  urgent  ns  to  demand  that  all  horses 
at  hand  should  be  impressed.  Yet,  under  ordinarj'  circumstances,  when 
family,  or  extra  blooded-horses,  or  brood  mares  of  admitted  higli  value, 
are  impressed,  we  respectfully  euggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have 
instructions  forwarded  to  the  impressing  officers  to  propose  and  allow 
the  owners  to  mibstittite  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound,  and  service- 
able horses  or  mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued  by  competent 
and  disinterested  pnrties  as  first-class  artillery  horses  or  first-class 
wngon  mules. 

The  term  average  value  per  head  is  in  contradistincliou  to  a  fixed 
and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We  supi^o^cd  'hat,  in  im- 
pressing a  ntimber  of  horses  or  mules,  whether  owned  by  several  per- 
sons or  one  individual,  that  sonie  might  be  estimated  at  $300,  and 
others  at  dififercnt  advanced  rates,  according  to  their  worth,  up  as  high 
as  $700 — thus  making  an  aveiage  value  or  price  for  a  vnnibev  of  good, 
sound,  and  efficient  horses  or  mules,  $500  each.- 

In  illustration  of  our  views,  we  will  add  that  a  horse  with  only  one 
eye  sound  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  a  first-class  artil- 
lery horse,  yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and  considerably  cur- 
tail his  value.  So  a  horse  from  ten  to  eighteen  years  of  age  miglit  be 
deemed,  in  all  other  particulars,  as  a  first-class  artillery  horse,  but,  of 
course,  however  ethcieut  or  able  to  render  good  service  for  a  year  or  so, 
yet  his  advanced  age  would  justly  and  maleriallj'  impair  his  value. 
Any  horse,  however  he  may  approximate  the  standard  of  a  first-class 
artillery  horse,  must,  according  to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum 
))ricc ;  and  as  fevv,  comparatively,  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  there- 
fore arc  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so,  of  course,  in  all  other 
instances  the  price  should  be  proportionately  reduced,  ns  imperfections 
place  them  below  the  standard  of  first-class,  etc. 


96 


Schedule  B — Hire  of  Labor,  Teams,   Wagons,  and  Drivers. 


Quantity  and  Time. 


Price. 


7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 


Baling  long  forage 

Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur- 
nished by  government 

Hauling 

Hauling  grain 

Hire    of    two-horse    team,   wagon,    and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner.. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 

Hire   of  four-horse   team,    wagon,    and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner.. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 

Hire    of   six-horse   team,    wagon,    and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations    furnished   by 
owner 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 

Hire  of  same,  rations  and  clothing  fur- 
nished by  owner 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 

Hire  of  teamsters,  rations  furnished  by 
government 

Hire   of  laborer,   clothing    and    rations 
furnished  by  government 

Hire  of  same,  clothing  and  rations  fur- 
nished by  owner 

Hire  of  same,  rations  only  furnished  by 
government 

Hire  of  ox-carts,  team,  and  driver,  ra- 
tions furnished  by  owner 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 
government 


Per  100  pounds. 

Per  66  pounds. . 
Per  cwt.  per  mile 
Per  bus.  per  mile 


Per  day. . . • 
Per  day. . • . 
Per  day. . . . 
Per  day.. . . 
Per  day. . . . 
Per  day. . . . 
Per  day. . . • 
Per  day. . . 
Per  month 
Per  month 
Per  month 
Per  year  . . 
Per  year  . 
Per  year  . . 
Per  day.. . 
Per  day. . . 


$  0  90 

05 
08 
04 

10  00 

5  00 
13  00 

6  50 
•    16  00 

8  00 

2  50 

1  50 

50  00 

30  00 

40  00 

300  00 

650  00 

400  00 

10  00 

5  00 


Upon  further  consideration,  we  have  concluded  to  value  sheaf  oats, 
hay,  and  blade  fodder,  east  of  the  Bine  Ridge  mountains,  when  baled 
at  $i>  40  per  hundred  pounds,  and  unbaled  at  $4  50  per  hundred 
pounds,  and  shucks  baled  at  $3  90  per  hundred  pounds,  and  $3 
unbaled. 


97 

REVISION   OF   THE    SCHEDULES   OF   FEBRUARY  AND 
MARCH    LAST. 

Since  the  ailojition  of  our  last  schedules  for  the  months  of  Feb 
ruary  and  March,  the  fiiiaucial  hills  passed  by  Congress,  taxing  th<' 
currency,  havo  seriously  impaired  the  value  of  the  old  issues  of  Con- 
federate Treasury  notes.  At  this  juncture  large  numbers  of  horsca 
and  mules  were  impressed  and  paid  for  in  a  currency  which  was  in  & 
few  days  thereafter  to  be  ta.ved  thirty-three  and  ouc-third  per  cent. 

The  boara  of  state  commissioners  having  adjourned,  and  one  of  i's 
members  being  out  of  the  slate,  it  could  not  be  convened  in  timo  to 
review  our  schedules  of  prices.  Under  this  state  of  fact.s,  wo  have 
re-examined  and  rearranged  our  tariff  of  prices  so  far  as  we  have 
been  advised  of  recent  impressments,  proposing,  in  this  mode,  i-o 
remedy  any  diminution  of  valuation  which  may  havo  resulted  from 
tliO  action  of  Congress  upon  the  currency.  Therefore  wo  assess  the 
averaije  value  of  artillery  or  wagon  horses  or  mules,  impressed  since 
the  passage  of  the  currency  bill  of  tho  17th  of  February  last,  at  $600- 
This  award  will  entitle  each  person  to  receive  higher  compensation, 
accordingly  as  each  horse  or  mule  recently  impressed  may  be  consider- 
ed as  being  a  first,  second,  or  third-class  artillery  or  wagon  horrc  n» 
mule,  whether  the  parties  appcal'to  our  board  or  not;  and  the  impress- 
ing agents  and  officers  should  forthwith  call  on  all  of  those  persons  of 
whom  they  impressed  horses  or  mules  and  propose  a  settlement  upon 
the.  foregoing  basis,  but  allowing  to  each  person  only  such  prices  as 
first,  second,  and  third-class  artillery  or  wagon  horses  or  mules  may  bo 
estimated  at,  assuming  our  average  aiipraiscment  of  $600  a.s  a  fair 
«  medium  valuation.  This,  then,  would  allow  a  maximum  price  of  $POfi, 
r--j-  and  a  minimum  price  of  $400,  making  JifiOO  tho  average  price,  thus 
■  allowing  more  for  first-class  horses  or  mules,  and  proportionately  le^S 
for  the  inferior,  .is  they  may  fall  below  the  grade  of  first-class.  Pay- 
ment of  v.hatevcr  amount  may  be  awarded  to  be  made  in  the  old  iasoo 
of  treasury  notes  as  circulated  before  the  first  of  April,  or  else  in  the 
new  issue,  but  with  a  deduction  in  such  cases  of  thirty-three  and  ono- 
third  per  cent,  from  the  additional  sum  allowed  in  each  case. 

E.  W.  IICBARD, 
ROBBRT  QlBBONEY, 

Wm.  B.  H.\KnisoN, 
Co  mm  J  ss  io  n  era  fo  r  Virg  hi  in . 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailjiitani  and  InKpcctor-Gcneraf. 
KS'  All  Appeals  and  rommunicationg  for  tlio  Board  of  Commissionors  Hhould  bo 
addressed  to  D.  Sanders  Chilton,  Secretary  of  tlio  Board  of  Coniinissionors  of  Ujc 
State  of  Virginia,  Richmond,  Va. 
9 


98  » 

GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  48.  j  Richmond,  May  27, 1864. 

I.. The  receipts  of  bonded  quartermasters  and  commissaries,  and  of 
agents  of  tax  service,  are  the  only  receipts  valid  to  a  producer  for  his 
tithe  tax.  All  others  are  worthless,  and  unjust  impositions  on  the  tax- 
payer. It  is  strictly  forbidden* that  any  other  persons  than  those  above 
named  shall  give  receipts  for  the  tithe. 

II.  .In  all  cases  of  collection  of  tithes  by  officers  of  the  Quartermas- 
ter and  Commissary  departments  in  the  field,  receipts  will  be  given 
monthly  to  the  district  quartermaster  on  tax  duty.  Such  receipts  must 
state  the  name  and  county  of  the  producer.  ' 

lH.  .Quartermasters  and  commissaries  who  have  means  of  transpor- 
tation, and  all  such  ofScers  collecting  supplies,  will  give  special  atten- 
tion to  the  removal  of  the  tax  in  kind  from  interior  depots  to  railroad 
stations,  and  to  the  supply  storehouses  of  the  army. 

IV.  .Officers  with  troops  are  prohibited  from  forcibly  taking  posses- 
sion of  the  tax  depots  or  appropriating  the  tithe.  If  they  need  sup- 
plies, requisitions  therefor  will  be  made  upon  the  tax  officer  or  agent. 

v.. Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  107(1863),  is  amended  to  pro- 
vide that  if  conscripts  accepted  for  field  duty,  and  sent  to  camps  of  in- 
struction, are,  upon  medical  examination,  found  disqualified  for  field 
service,  but  capable  of  performing  duties  named  in  section  8  of  the 
"  act  to  organize  forces  to  serve  during  the  war,"  approved  February 
17,  1864,  certificates  setting  forth  the  ground  of  disability,  and  stating 
the  appropriate  duties  in  any  of  the  departments  of  service  for  which 
they  are  best  fitted,  will  be  forwarded,  through  the  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion, to  the  Surgeon-General  for  approval,  and  returned  to  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Conscription  for  final  action. 

VI.. Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  6,  current  series,  is  amended 
as  follows : 

The  decision  of  this  board,  if  approved  by  the  brigade  or  district 
commander,  will  be  final.  If  not  approved,  it  will  be  forwarded,  "  dis- 
approved," to  the  division  or  department  bead-quarters  for  final  action, 
when  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  brigade  or  district  ordnance  officer  to 
notify  the  company  commander,  as  required  in  the  paragraph  to  which 
this  is  amendatory. 

VII.. Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will  return  to  the 
quartermaster  from  whom  grain  is  received  the  sacks  in  which  it  is 


99 


contained.  Failing  to  do  so,  they  will  be  charged  one  dollar  and  nine- 
ty cents  for  each  sack  not  returned. 

VIII.  •Po'fet  commanders  will  inspect  the  offices  of  such  officers  as  are 
prohibited  from  emploj'iug  able-bodied  men  in  their  departments  or 
bureaus,  and  in  case  of  violation  of  the  law,  take  the  action  required 
by  the  department  and  district  commander  in  section  9,  act  of  Febru- 
ary 17,  1864  (General  Orders,  No.  26,  current  series). 

IX.  .The  attention  of  post  commanders  is  called  to  the  19th  Article 
of  War.     The  monthly  returns   therein  required  will  be  made  directly 

•to  this  office.  The  name  and  rank  of  every  officer  at  the  post,  and  how 
and  by  what  authority  c.Tch  is  employed,  will  be  reported,  in  addition  to 
the  other  information  called  for  by  the  printed  notes  on  the  forms. 
Blanks  will  be  furnished  from  this  office,  upon  requisition  of  dim- 
manders. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailjutanl  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 

No.  49. 


Adjutant  and  I.vspeotor-Qbneral's  Office, 
4^  Richmond,  June  4, 1864. 


The  following  named  officers  have  been  dropped  from  th 
army,  to  takeeffect  from  the  date  affi.xed  to  their  respective 
Sec'nd  lA.  David  C.  Farmer,        Co,  I,  55th  Ala.  vols. 

Co.  A,  40th  Miss  vols. 

Chapliviii  19tli  La.  vole. 

Co.  F,  Cobb's  legion,  Ga.  vols. 

Co.  D,  19th  Ga.  vols. 

Co.  G,  19th  La.  vols. 

Captain  C.  C.  Callum's  company, 


First  Lt.    J.  C.  Windham, 
Rev.  S.  B.  .Suratt, 

Lientcn't  T>.  Adihold, 
Captain     James  D.  Hunter, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  .T.  II.  Pickens, 
First  Lt.    George  W.  BrowU; 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Benj   P.  Devi«ny, 
"  Alex.  Anderson, 

"  M.  T.  Swiut, 

Captain     J.  II.  .Tones, 
Sec"nd  Lt.  .John  E.  Barber, 
As't  S'gn    W.  n.  Newell, 
Captain      A.  P.  Lamb, 
Sec'nd  Lt  F.  King, 

"  L.  B.  Hutchinson, 

Captain     T.  J.  Patton, 
A.  C.  Smith, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  James  A.  Panl, 


Co.  K,  nth  Ark.  battalion, 
Co.  C,  49th  Ga.  vols. 
A.  Q.  M.  19thS.  C.  vols. 
Co.  I,  nth  Va,  vols. 

Co.  A,  1st  Mo.  cavalry, 
Co.  F,  Ist  Mo.  vols. 

Co.  B,  3d  " 

Co.  E,  " 

Co.  C,  Walker's  battalion, 


e  rolls  of  the 
names  : 

Jan.  7,1864, 
Jan.    8, 1864. 

Jan.  11,  1864- 

Jan.  12, 1864. 
Jan.  18, 1864. 

Jan.  19, 1864. 

Jan.  20, 1864. 
Jan.  21,  1864. 
Jan.  23,1864. 
Jan.  27,1864. 


Feb.     1,  1864. 


100 


mat  Lt. 

'.^oc'nrl  Lt. 
Pirst  Lt. 

Captain 
Djctor 


As't  S'gn 
DGc'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
3eo'nd  Lt. 
Uev. 

Ad't  S'gn 
Lteuteu't 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
fjaptain 
>Jl>c'uiJ  Lt. 

liiptain 
i'irBt  Lt. 
Pee'nd  Lt. 

Captain 


3eq|nd  Lt. 
Oiiptain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Oaptain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
f^ev. 
j-'jrst  Lt. 
Seo'nd  Lt, 


Oaptain 
Sec'nd  Lt, 

Aa't  S'gn 
Seo'nd  Lt 

S'ifstLt. 


Soc'nd  Lt 


J.  W.  Ford, 
John  JIcGill, 
S.  V.  D.  Stout, 
Robert  S.  Russ, 
E.  J.  Gilfoid, 
Wm.  W.  C'lianJ'.or, 
Jas.  Lewis  Adams, 
WaiJ.  S.  Lindsley, 
Sam'l  B.  Bethiine, 
David  T.  Cooper, 
Robert  Dignum, 
Mathia.i  Busg, 
Meieilitli  Forney, 
S.  S.  Moore, 
W.  D.  Wiley, 
Wm.  H.  Ptiillips, 
JohiiHibarts, 
H.  L.  Heiskell, 
Melton  Griffith, 
S.  E.  Parkman, 
Pat.  McQoveru, 

D.  M.  Ruby, 
KhnoreT.  Wolf, 
Dan'l  G.  Helmick, 
C.  C.  Berry, 

W.  B.  Nelson, 
S.  Whitaker, 
R.  W.  Thoupson, 
W.  0.  Martin, 

E.  G.  MeKenzio, 
A.  W.  Beegley, 
Jas.  Ilarroll, 

W.  W.  Mulloudore, 
A.  T.  Holmes, 
W.  C.  Southwiok, 
J.  J.  Bingley, 
W.  C.  Ault, 
C.  F.  Huff, 
W.  A.  Trueheart, 
John  Ellison, 
N.  A.  Stuart, 
Chas.  T.  Lucas, 
Jas.  Pennybacker, 
Miles  W.  Goldsby, 
Thos.  L.  Emory, 
J.  S.  Dorsette. 
S.  B.  Bnckalow, 
J.  L.  Freeman, 
J.  C.  Elliott, 
J.  T.  C.  Ward, 


Co.  K,  lat  Mo.  infantry, 

Co.  A,  11th  Tonn.  vols. 

Co.  B,  ", 

Co.  K,  6th  Fla.  vols. 

Co.  G,  lUh  Tunn.  vols. 

Hughes'  Ark.  battalion, 

Ilill's  Ark.  cav.-Ury, 

Adams'  2 1  Cherokee  cavalry, 

1st  Ark.  battalion  infantrj', 

Chickasaw  battalion  cavalry, 

Co  A,  lat  Mo.  vols. 

Co.  F,  4tli 

Co.  K.  5th  V.a.  vola. 

26th  N.  C.  vols. 

43a  Miss.  vols. 

Co.  B,  Thomas'  legion, 

Co.  II,  " 

Co.  1.  20t,h  Va.  cavalry, 

Co.  E,  3Sth  Mi.^3.  vols. 

Co.  F,  Phillips'  legion, 

Co.  G,  Thoiitxs'  legion,  . 

Co.  E,  19th  Va.  cavalry, 

Co.  E,  20  th         " 

Co.  A,  Thomas'  legion, 

Co.  B,  " 

Co.  E,  " 

Co.  H,  <ft  Va.  vols. 

Co.  C,  5th  Tean.  cavalry, 

Co.  D,  « 

Co.  E,  " 

Co.H,  "   , 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  A,  Ist  b.ittalion  local  dcfonco, 

Co.  B,.  " 

Co.  C,  " 

Co.  F,  "  • 

A.  Q.  M.  22d  Va,  cavalry, 

Co.  G,  22d  Ala.  vols. 

Co.  B,  7th  Va.  cavalry, 

P.  A.  0.  S. 

Drill-master. 

Co.  D,  10th  Va.  cavalry, 

Co.  I,  ilth.  Ala.  vols. 

Co.  G,  " 

Co.  K,  " 

Co.  C,  -  " 


Feb.    2,1864. 
Feb.    3, 18G4. 

Feb.    4, 1SG4. 

-  Feb.     6,  1864. 

Feb.  13, 1804. 


Feb.  15, 1861. 


Feb.  18, 1864 . 
Feb.  24. 1864. 


.Feb.  2-5,  1864. 


M'ch    1,1884. 


M"ch    2,  1S64. 
M'ch    4, 1804  • 


M'eh    6.1804. 


M'ch  7,  1864. 
M'ch  14,  1S64. 
M'ch  16,  1.964. 


101 


Surgeon     R.  A.  AndorBon, 
Captain      E.  D.  Rickott, 
Colonel      Wm.  II.  Taylor, 
First  Lt.    Joshua  McOook, 
Lieuton't   M.  V.  Ilickmaa, 

"  T.  T.  Gra.vaon, 

Captain      S.  B.  Blocker, 
As't  S'gn   M.  Rittcnour, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Wm.  M.  Howingtou, 
First  Lt.    II.  D.  Evans, 

"  Ro.  J.  Gibbert, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  A.  C.  Borry, 

•'  J.  .T.  Baker, 

Lieuten't  J.  E.  Dwyor, 

"  R.  II.  Ankins, 

Captain      J.  A.  Inabiuott, 
First  Lt.     B.  Ilondrox, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  B.  M.  Garrett, 

'<  J.  E.  Galloway, 

As't  Sgn   J..T.  Baxter, 
Captain      ,T.  J.  Lcn.s;afiold, 
Lieuten't  Isaac  Weston, 

«  John  W.  Wswlck, 

First  Lt.    W.  W.  Holland, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  L.  A.  Lane, 

"  J.  D.  Jones, 

First  Lt.    J.  R.  Hill, 
Captain     II.  B.  Cunningham, 

"  R.  S.  M.^rshall, 

First  Lt.     Thomas  Brown, 

"  R.  Fouldon, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  W.  Bradley, 

"  David  Gardner, 

"  M.  Knight, 

First  Lt.    John  A.  Tiuley, 
Captain     G.  N.  Londermilk, 

"  W.  B.  Nelson, 

First  Lt.    G.  P.  Raines, 
Major         Wilson  M.  Carey, 

"  Clias.  B.  Cosby, 

"  W.  S.  Harris, 

"  E.  L.  Herd,    . 

«  Sackfiold  Machon, 

"  W.  D.  Veck, 

«  II.  Peniileton, 

"  R.  Q.  Pinckiioy, 

••  A.  G.  Quito, 

«  Thomas  S.  Smith, 

"  J.  Vernoy, 

"  C.  U.  Wcstfield, 

9* 


P.  A.  C.  3. 

A.Q  M.  6th  Ky.  vols. 

I2th  Miss.  vols. 

Co.  C,  Arsenal  battalion, 

Co.  1, 2d  Ark.  mounted  rifli:men, 

C.  8.  infantry, 

A.  C.  S.  2d  S.  C.  cavalry, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Go.  D,  fiSth  N.  C.  vols. 

Co.  K,  I2lb  Miss.  vols. 

Co.  I,  2d  N.  C.  vols. 

Co.  A,  Walker's  bat.,  Thomas'  leg. 

Co.  F,  5th  Miss.  vols. 

A.  D.  C.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  — ,  4l8tTenn.  vols. 

Co.  B,  Ist  S.  0.  vols. 

Co.  I,  1st  Confederate  Ga.  vols. 

Oo.  A,  5l8t  Va.  vols. 
P.  A,  C.  3. 

Co.  C,  2lBt  Miss.  vols. 
Co.B.  60lh  Va.  vols. 
Co.  C,  16th  Va.  cavalry, 
Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S. 


Knr9lling  officer  P.  A.  C.  8. 
Co.  Q,  15th  Tonn.  vols. 

"      37th  " 

Co.  G,  " 

Co.  K,  " 

Co.  G,  « 

Co.  B,  " 

Co.  II,  " 

Co.  C,  S7Ui  Tcnn.  cavalry, 
Co.  II,  Walker's  bat..  Thomas'  leg 
Co.  B,  "  " 

Co.  A,  2d  L«  vols. 
Q.  M.  Montgomery,  Ala. 

'•     General  Polignac, 

"     Lt.  Col.  A.  U.Colo, 

"    General  A.  Gracio, 

"  General  .T.  B.  Kershaw, 

"  General  Miigruder, 

''  General  Trapicr, . 

"  General  Moore, 

"  Camp  oriiistrnction,  .\rk. 

"  General  Trimble, 

"  General  Gracio, 


M'ch  16,  ISa. 
H'ch  19,  ISet. 


M'ch  22, 1884. 
M'ch  23, 1864. 


M'ch24,186i.. 


M'ch  31, 1864. 
Ap'l  2,1864. 


Ap'l  11, 1864. 


102 


Major 

J.  D.  Whitford, 

Q.  M. 

Goldsboro',  N.  C. 

Ap'l  11, 1864. 

Captain 

R.  H.  Allen, 
Fletcher  Austin, 
N.  S.  Adams, 

A.Q. 

M.  12th  Mies,  battalion, 
27th  Ark.  regiment, 
2d  Mo. cavalry. 

" 

J.  H.  Beck, 

" 

5th  Texas  cavalry, 

" 

W.  P.  Baughn, 

u 

15th            " 

" 

John  Bartholomew, 

«  . 

3d  Ark.  cavalry. 

It. 

Enq.  Bohen, 

'■' 

9th  Va.  cavalry, ' 

" 

James  M.  Bliss, 

" 

30th  Ark.  regiment. 

" 

J.  W.  Bassett, 

« 

22d 

" 

D.  J.  Belven, 

« 

29th            " 

" 

R.  A.  Bnrrass, 

CI 

Tax  in  kind,  Tennessee, 

" 

H.  Boudurant, 

« 

6th  La.  battalion. 

" 

Cyrus  T.  Bemiss, 

(.' 

Conscript  camp.  La. 

CI 

D.  Carmichael, 
W.  B.  Calhoun, 

iC 

1st  Alabama, 

1st  Ark.  bat.  cavalry, 

" 

u 

B.  L.  Dyer, 

" 

13th  Tenn.  regiment. 

II 

<( 

W.  F.  Erskine, 

" 

15th 

IC 

« 

J.  W.  Faust, 

« 

33d  Ark.  regiment, 

IC 

u 

J.  P.  Ford, 

" 

Col.  Hendrlck's  regiment, 

II 

u 

A.  F.  Flours, 

" 

16tli  Texas  regiment. 

II 

(I 

E.  II.  Golightly, 

» 

4Sth  Ala.  regiment, 

cc 

<< 

J.  H.  Higgerson, 

(( 

42d             " 

« 

u 

L.  D.  HoUoway, 

(( 

5th  Ky.  cavalry, 

« 

Todd  Hall, 

« 

3d              " 

« 

R.  P.  Uunter, 

" 

17th  Tenn.  regiment, 

« 

W.  J.  Kennedy, 

- 

- 

« 

S.  E.  Keiroff, 

« 

27th  Tsnn.  regiment, 

« 

M.  n.  Lowr^, 

« 

6th  Miss,  regiment. 

II 

L.  M.  Lawshee, 
John  H.  Lee, 

** 

Ist 

Tax  in  kind,  Va. 

'' 

D.  Lotspeich, 

E.  J.  McGavock, 

Camp  of  Instruction.  Tenn. 
loth  Tenn.  regiment. 

1, 

F.  C.  Malain, 

10th  La.  battalion, 

CI 

Newton  Moores, 

11th  Ky.  regiment. 

« 

J.  R.  McCullock, 

General  E.  K.  Smith, 

« 

W.  A.  McAlister, 

Tax  in  kind,  Alabama, 

II 

T.  W.  Napier, 

" 

Sd  Ky.  cavalry, 

IC 

E.  F.  Peason, 

8th  Mo.  battalion, 

« 

S.  G.  Porter, 

Ordnance  bureau, 

« 

J.  E.  Rogers, 

1st  Miss,  regiment, 

« 

H.  C.  Robards, 
J.  N.  Shepperd, 

Bondurant's  regiment, 
46th  Miss,  regiment. 

" 

W.  H.  Sowers, 

• 

.  Crutchfield  cavalry, 

« 

F.  Seibert,    ' 

3d  Texas  regiment, 

CI 

Geo.  C.  Sebastian, 

Wirt  Adams'  Miss,  cavalry, 

i; 

J.  A.  Stewart, 

Tax  in  kind,  Texas, 

II 

A.  Stevens, 

16th  Ala.  regiment, 

II 

Absalom  Stevens, 

55th            " 

II 

,  « 

J.  W.  Terrell, 

- 

- 

C4 

103 


Captain 

C.  Thomas, 

D.  H.  White, 
W.  R.  White, 

A.  Q.  M.  53d  Tenn.  regiment, 
".          Lt.  Col.  Black, 
"          13th  Ark.  sharp-shooters, 

Ap' 

111. 

,1864. 

(I 

Travis  G.  Wright, 

"          Clark.sville,  Texas, 

" 

« 

E  B.  Whitfield, 

"          11th  Ark.  regiment. 

« 

(I 

Geo.  L.  Wimberly, 

"          Tax  in  kind,  N.  Carolina, 

« 

» 

J.  S.  Westbrook, 
J.  B.  White, 
W.  P.  Warfiold, 

"          2d  Ga.  cavalry, 
"          10th  Miss,  regiment, 
Lt.  Col.  A.  H.  Colo, 

: 

" 

J.  J.  Flournoy, 
Alex.  S.  Jouos, 
A.  J.  Wolf, 

"          General  Tilgham, 
"          40th  Miss.  vols. 
"          15th  Ark.  vols. 

" 

" 

T.  M.  Hewitt, 

'•          art'y  3d  corps  Army  Nt  Va 

,  .\p'l 

1  14, 

1864. 

Liout. 

Ephr.'^im  Latham, 

"          Co.  C,  50th  Ala.  vols. 

" 

First  Lt. 

Miclinol  J.  Miles, 

"          Co.  C,  19th  Tenn.  vols. 

Ap'l 

15, 

1864. 

Captain 

R.  G.  Johnson, 

«           Co.  H,  29th  Miss.  vols. 

" 

First  Lt. 

A.  W.  Hardin, 

"           Co.  G,  1st  Conf.  cav.  reg't. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  0.  P.  Caldwell, 

"           Co.  D,  5th  Texas  vols. 

" 

First  Lt. 

C.  Estes, 

"           Co.  B,  7th  Vii.vols. 

« 

a^c'nd  Lt 

.  Jas.  H.  Eanes, 

Co.  K,  12th  Va.  vols. 

<> 

i( 

J.  M.  Pressler, 

Co.  E,  Willis'  batt.  Texas  cavalry. 

« 

" 

Jas.  P.  Gundy, 

Co.  C, 

<i 

First  Lt. . 

J.  P.  Renfroe, 

Co.  B,                          « 

" 

Captain 

J.  C.  Rowland, 

Co.  A,                          « 

" 

First  Lt. 

J.  H.  Brouuing, 

Co.  B,  Lane's  Ist  Tex.  reg.  par.  rang, 

- 

— , 

1863. 

Lieut. 

J.  D.  Jones, 

Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Ap'l 

18, 

1864. 

Soc'nd  Lt 

.  J.  W.  Jones, 

Co.  G,  2d  La.  vols. 

•< 

First  Lt. 

J.  C.  Kennedy, 

Co.  E,  2d        « 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  C.  A.  Chisolm, 

Co.  E,  10th     " 

« 

« 

J.  S.  Andrews, 

Co.  G,  15th    « 

<* 

" 

Jno.  Gross, 

Co.  C,  15th     "     . 

« 

Captain 

Wm.  Guss, 

Co.  I,  16th     '' 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  G.  B.  Campbell, 
Jno.  Ford, 

Co.  F,  25th     " 

Co.  E,  33d      "         , 

** 

Lieut. 

Wm.  R.  Johnson, 

Co.  F,  48th  Va.  vols. 

'• 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Wm.  M.  Davis, 

Co.  E,  49th      " 

" 

Captain 

n.  B.  Harvey, 

Co.  H,  6th  Texas  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

.  W.  M.  Hopwood, 

Key's  battery. 

" 

First  Lt. 

W.  H.  Elliott, 

Co.  F,  24th  Miss.  vols. 

" 

Secnd  Lt. 

,  F.  Shubarth, 

Co.  D,  Ist  Mobile  regiment  L.  D. 

(< 

» 

Bolivoaux, 

"                 " 

" 

" 

A.  L.  Bratcher, 

Co.  H,  46th  Miss.  vols. 

II 

" 

S.  S.  Williams, 

Co.  F,             « 

« 

Doctor 

Chas.  Jno.  Crockett, 

27  th  battalion  Va.  cavalry. 

Ap'l 

23, 

1864. 

" 

Jas.  G.  Parshall, 

3d  Tenn.  cavalry. 

« 

Surgeon 

Geo.  Westley  Henly 

',  59lh 

" 

Captain 

John  H.  Kyser, 

A.  Q.  M.  10th  battalion  Miss.  vols. 

Ap'l 

26, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

,  B.  F.  Creamer, 

Co.  B,  Tredegar  battalion. 

« 

Captain 

W.  G.  Andrews, 

Andrew's  battery  Ala.  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

,  Seth  Bridgman, 

Co.  I,  40th  N.  C.  vols. 

>i 

104 


First  Lt.    Jas.  A.  Thoni, 

Co.  I,  54th  S.  C.  vols. 

Ap'l  26,  1864. 

Rev.           Sani'l  Steele, 

Chaplain  59th  Tenn.  vols. 

« 

First  Lt.    J.  D.  Bond, 

Co.  G,                « 

(1 

"           Isom  L.  Lee, 

Co.  C,                « 

« 

"           C.  J.  S.  KirUy, 

Co.  C,  36th  batt.  Va.  cavalry, 

« 

Captain      E.  K.  Counts, 

Co.  E,  21st  Va.  cavalry. 

" 

Sec'nJ  Lt.  S.  Flecker, 

Co.  F,           « 

» 

First  Lt.    Jasper  Colly, 

Co.  E,           « 

" 

Wni.  A.  Ellis, 

Co.  E,  65th  Ga.  vols. 

11 

Lieut.         John  Sumford, 

Co.  E,  36th 

" 

Captain     John  S.  Stansell, 

Co.  C,  52d  Tenn.  vols. 

" 

Sec'ud  Lt.  Wm.  II.  Lott, 

Co.  C,  52d            " 

u 

Lieut.         J.  H.  Smith, 

Co.  C,  4th            " 

« 

'•           Askins, 

Co.  C,  41st          " 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  W.  McClung, 

Co.  F,  31st  Ala.  vols. 

« 

"           J.  M.  McCarty, 

Co.  D,  53d         " 

(1 

First  Lt.    L.  S.  Mathews, 

Co.  B,  18th  Ala.  battalion. 

(( 

W.  II.  Scott, 

Co.  B,  63d  Va.  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Jao.  C.  Iliggins, 

Co.  G, 

II 

Captain      G.  W.  B.  Kusling, 

Co.  H,        _     « 

" 

Lieut.         J.  II.  Wassum,     - 

Co.  H,            " 

" 

"           Jno.  M.  Williams, 

Co.  K,            " 

« 

First  Lt.    W.  W.  Robinson, 

Co.  B,  24th  Miss.  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Henry  Scheling, 

Co.  G,  12th          " 

l( 

«            N.  M.  Coker, 

Co.  F,  42d 

" 

«           J.  G.  Hastings, 

Co.  K,  12th         " 

" 

«            II.  C.  Gibson, 

Co.  B,  16th       ■  " 

<< 

"           W.  D.  Castlebury, 

Co.  K,  2d   "         " 

« 

First  Lt.    C.  F.  Jones, 

Co.  E,  19th          " 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  A.  Davis, 

Co.  L,  48th         " 

<< 

Captain     J.  R.  Norment, 

Co.  D,  14th  La.  vols. 

" 

First  Lt.    Wm.  Magee, 

Co.  I,  9th 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt.  E.  T.  Cormier, 

Co.  C,  6th            « 

'• 

First  Lt.    Hiram  Gay, 

Co.  H,  50th  Ga.  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Thos.  E.  Lee, 

Co.  K,  49th 

«< 

■    "     ■       E.  A.  Carraway, 

Co.  H,  41st  Ala.  vols. 

" 

Rev.           F.  Hickerson, 

Chaplain  5th  F!a.  vols. 

" 

Sec'ud  Lt.  J.  L.  Jacobs, 

Co.  I,  ISth  N.  C.  vols. 

« 

First  Lt.    Luke  Durden, 

Co.  K,  4th  Texas  vols. 

« 

Ass.  Surg.  R.  U.  Pate, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

ft 

Captain      Benj.  C.  Cooley, 

Co.  E,  14th  La.  vols. 

May  2, 1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  MicajaU  Martin, 

Co.  I,  2d            « 

" 

First  Lt.    John  C.  Fears, 

Co.  H,  2d  Miss.  vols. 

" 

"           G.  P.  Ilaius, 

Co.  A,  2d  La.  vols. 

'« 

Sec'ndLt.  Jas.  G.  Wall, 

Co.  E,  4th  Va.  vols. 

« 

First  Lt.    Thomas  White, 

Co.  C,  14th  La.  vols. 

" 

"           Geo.  Williams, 

Co.  K,  15th        « 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  D.  Williams, 

Co.  K,  1st  N.  C.  vols. 

« 

Captain      J.  M.  Streetman, 

Co.  G,  56th  Ga.  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt.  2acU.  IIowcU, 

Co.  A,  25th  La.  volSo 

<( 

105 


Bec'nJ  Lt. 
Onptain 
Soc'nd  JA. 
Captain 

Fhat  Lt 
Si'c'iid  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Yivst  Lt. 

Scc'iul  Lt. 

Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Brig.  Gen. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 
Lient. 
Captixin 


First  Lt. 


Lient. 
First  Lt. 
Captain 
Bnc'nd  Lt 


E.  U.  SenfT,  Co.  I,  25tli  La.  vols.  May  2, 18C4. 
Jas.  A.  Dojio,  Co.  C,  3d  Ti'nn.  vols.  " 

Wm.  Thomas,  Co.  A,  .3d  Confederate  cavalry,  " 

J.  J.  WiinmacU,  Co.  E,  16th  Tenn.  vols.  " 

AV.  J.  Vasar,  Co.  I,  10th  Confederate  cuvalry,  « 

Andrew  M.  Ilrown.  Co.  B.  -HtU  Tenn.  I)att.  S.  S.  May  3, 1864. 

W.  W.  McClcndcn,  Co.  D,  4th  La.  batt.  « 

A.  Banuon,  Co.  Q,  13th  La.  regiment.  " 
Ed.  Rhorend,  Co.  U,  20th  "  " 
J.  Bartholomy,  Co.  II,  20th  "  " 
.1.  L.  Brannon,  Co.  D,  29tli  Miss,  regiment,  " 
P.  1).  Bobbltt,  Co,  C,  SStli  Tenn.  regiment,  " 

B.  L.  Glenn,  Co.  E  39th  "  " 
R.  O.  Johnson,  Co.  H,  iiOth  Mi"  j.  regiment,  " 

C.  T.  Brown,  Co.  A.  3Ist  Ala.  regiment,  " 
Acton,  Co.  K,  .'illi  Ky.  regiment,  '• 

.T.  W.  Peyton,  Co.  E,  45th  Tenn.  vols.  May  7,  1864. 

D.  M.  Frost,  P.  A.  C.  S.  Dec.  9, 1SC3. 
M.  G.  JIhy.  Co.  C,  9th  Ala.  vol.".  May  16, 1864. 
Geo.  1).  Nixon,  Co.  A.  12lh  Miss.  vols.  " 

W.  R.  Wright,  Co.  K.  8th  Ga.  vols.  " 

.T.G.  McCabe,  Co.  A,  18tli  Tenn.  vols.  " 

IliMiry  B.  Ilarvcy,  Co.  11,  6th  Texas  vols.  .  " 

T.  II.  O'llohie,  Co.  H,  loth  Arkansas  vols.  « 

n.  E.  Amis,  Co.  H,  4th  La.-batfalion,  " 

Fred.  G.  Howard,  Co.  G,  let  Via.  vols.  " 

L.  W.  Gilbroth,  Co.  G,  52d  Ga.  vols.  " 

J.  C.  DeGraffenreid,  Co.  K.  10th  Confederate  cavalry,  " 

Wm.  A.  Ellis,  Co.  E,  65th  Ga.  vols.  " 

W.  C.  Dorris,  Co.  1, 66th         "  " 

J.  D.  Smith,  Co.  F,  8th  Miss.  vols.  " 

F.  Daniel,  Co.  D.  39tli  G.a.  vols.  " 
AV.  U.  Rose,  Co.  K,  32d  Tenn.  vols.  " 
.T.  II.  Womack,  Co.  D,  23d  Tenn.  battalion,  "^ 
P.  M.  llnghU-tt,  Co.  T,  4th  Tenn.  vols.  " 
J.  B.  Potts,  Co.  II,  44th  Miss.  vols.  " 
B.  K.  Pakes,  Co.  K,  ISth  Tenn.  vols.  « 
J.  C.  Dnuu,  Co.  1, 45th  "  « 
T.  B.  ILardy,  Co.  B,  4tli  La.  battalion,  " 
J.  C.  Boring,  Co.  D,  34lh  Ga.  vols.  " 
.1.  A.  Belhcll.  Co.  K.  7th  Fla.  vols.  " 
B.  G.  Darden,  Co.  B,  3d  Tenn.  vols.-  " 
Cilvin  Dickinson,  Co.  D.  10th  X.  C.  bat.  artillery,  May  18,  1864. 
A.  Kllpatrick,  Co.  A,  32d  Ala.  vols.  " 

L.  D.  Alexander,  Co.  F.  16th  N.  C.  vols.  «« 

R.  C.  Bryan,  *  Co.  F,  48th  Va.  vols.  « 

J.  P.  Ray,  Co.  B,  16th  N.  C.  vols.  « 

John  11.  Sale,  Co.  B,  18th  Va.  battalion,  .       " 

R.  11.  Thompson,  Co.  B,  48th  Va.  vols.  " 

J.  T.  McQahoe,  Co.  A,  Patterson's  rog.  Ala.  cavalry,  " 


106 


Captain 

C.  L.  Molteis, 

Co.  E,  7th  Ala.  cavalry, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  James  R.  Stewart, 

Co.  G,  8th  Fla.  vols. 

First  Lt. 

J.  J.  Crook, 

Co.  A,  9th  Texas  vols. 

Major 

K  M.  Van  Zandt, 

7th           « 

Captain 

Benj.  F.  Fatten, 

Co.  B,  60th  N.  C.  vols. 

First  Lt. 

A.  W.  Stewart, 

Co.  E,  18th  Tenn.  Tols. 

Sec'nd  Lt,  G.  P.  Straley, 

Co.  F,  3d               " 

« 

John  Swinford, 

Co.  R,  36th  Ga.  vols. 

" 

J.  Smithey, 

Co.  H, 

u 

W.K.  Stenries, 

Co.  I,  5th  Miss.  vols. 

" 

Thos.  H.  Pittmann, 

Co.  I,  6th  Fla.  vols. 

u 

Wm.  J.  Ritcher, 

Co.  I,  1st 

tt 

John  L.  West, 

Co.  G,  1st        " 

Captain 

Jacob  Foster, 

Co.  A,  25th  Ala.  vols. 

(I 

E.  F.  Young, 

Co.  E,  8th  Ark.  vols. 

u 

J.  W.  Robinson, 

Co.  C,  19th 

(1 

Geo.  W.  Byram, 

Co.  C,  4th  Tenn.  vols. 

>( 

S.  M.  Ralston, 

Co.  D,  6th  Ga.  vols. 

First  Lt. 

0.  S.  Ragland, 

Co.  D,  43d 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  M.  Duffle, 

Co.  K,  51st  Ala.  cavalry, 

« 

Sam'l  W.  Robinson, 

Co.  K,  38th  Ala.  vols. 

Lieut. 

Geo.  W.  Prior, 

Co.  G,  48th  Tenn.  vols. 

« 

Jos.  R.  Voss, 

Co.  H, 

u 

T.  J.  Terry, 

Co.  C,  4l8t  Miss.  vols. 

Captain 

C.  T.  Huckstepp, 

Artillery  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Lieut. 

John  Ford, 

Co.  E,  33d  Va.  infantry, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  J.  Sermons, 

Co.  G,  50th  Ga.  regiment, 

« 

Geo.  White, 

Co.  B,           " 

" 

J.  Hall, 

Co.  I,  2d  Fla.  regiment, 

Colonel 

Wm.  G.  Robinson, 

2d  N.  C.  cavalry, 

First  Lt. 

•W.  C.  Driver, 

Co.  E,  7th  La.  vols. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  G.  B.  Strickland, 

Co.  K,  42d  Miss.  vols. 

« 

John  Sweeney, 

Co.  K,  Ist  S.  0.  vols. 

" 

R.  P.  Tutwiler, 

Co.  B,  15th  Vs.  cavalry, 

Captain 

Jas.  C.  Cooper, 

Co.  E,  48th  Tenn.  vols. 

" 

A.  C.  Pippin, 

Co.  A,  28th           " 

« 

E.  D.  Polk, 

Co.  B,  34th            « 

" 

J.  M.  Phillips, 

Co.  D,  4th  Tenn.  cavalry, 

" 

J.  F.  Richie, 

Co.  B,  8th  Arkansas  vols. 

First  Lt. 

W.  H.  Streshler, 

Adjutant  4th  La.  battalion, 

(( 

J.  R.  Roundtree, 

Co.  I,  5th  Miss.  vols. 

« 

J.  W.  Roberts, 

Co.  D,  52d  Ga.  vols. 

« 

Jas.  A.  Lee, 

Co.  E,  7th  Miss.  vols. 

« 

Arthur  W.  Hardin, 

Co.  G,  1st  Conf.  cavalry  regiment. 

u 

J.  D.  E.  Riggs, 

Co.  B,  7th  La.  vols. 

u 

J.  C.  Robinson, 

Co.'E,  38th  Tenn.  vols.     • 

Sec'nd  Lt 

;.  W.%.  Quilliam, 

.Co.  H,  66th  Ga.  vols. 

" 

J.  H.  McDade, 

Co.  I, 

" 

N.  C.  Young, 

Co.  C,  34th  Miss.  vols. 

u 

T.  J.  Terry, 

Co.  C,  41st  Miss,  cavalry, 

May  18, 1864. 


May  23, 1864. 


May  25, 1864. 


107 


Soc'nd  Lt.  H.  W.  Taylor, 

« 

B.  E.  Thurman, 

<i 

Thomas  Morgan, 

M 

Thomas  Padrick, 

'• 

William  P.  Clanton, 

"• 

James  A.  Carr, 

(1 

Anderson  R.  Bum, 

" 

W.  N.  Chevalier, 

" 

L.  F.  Coker, 

•' 

Jas.  A  Hill, 

U 

J.  L.  Herd, 

" 

Q.  L.  Wood, 

« 

Monroe  R.  Luck, 

" 

W.  B.  Parrish, 

« 

A.  0.  Montague, 

Am.  Surg 

:.  W.  C.  Lewis, 

Major 

IL  H.  Aymett, 

Captain 

S.  N.  Jackson, 

" 

R.  L.  Pruyn, 

« 

W.  W.  Beard, 

" 

J.  K.  Womack, 

First  Lt 

Q.  W.  Lovett, 

" 

D.  B.  Oorham, 

(I 

0.  W.  Harvey, 

" 

J.  B.  Carter, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  B.  M.  Orton, 

t< 

CUas.  Roth, 

i< 

T.  B.  Lloyd, 

« 

J.  H.  Butler, 

^< 

J.  H.  Beard, 

« 

J.  W.  Wray, 

Cl 

J.  H.  West, 

" 

W.  D.  Watson, 

1< 

P.  A.  Miller, 

(( 

N.  C.  Williams, 

" 

S.  C.  Gleyhorne, 

(1 

•J.  W.  Ekins, 

<> 

N.  R.  Douglass, 

u 

J.  H.  Eagan, 

(( 

J.  T.  Ferguson, 

(( 

R.  M.  Felton, 

" 

J.  W.  Gordon, 

l< 

G.  Cook, 

Lieut. 

Thos.  Williams, 

<< 

J.  L.  Adkiuson,    - 

Co.  B,  26th  Tenn.  vols.  May  25, 1864. 

Co.  C,  56th  Ga.  vols.  " 

Co.  I,  Ist  Fla.  vols.  'J 

Co.  I,  1st  Fla.  cavalry,  « 

Co.  D,  42d  Ala.  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  3d  Confederate  regiment,  " 

Co,  G,  34th  Tenn.  vols.  « 

Co.  F,  25th  La.  vols.  « 

Co.  F,  19th  Arkansas  vole.  " 

Co.  H,  8th  Ten.  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  28th  "  " 

Co.  *",  38th  "  " 

Co.  F,  35th  "  « 

Co.  1, 48th  «  " 

Co.  F,  48th  «  « 

12th  La.  vols.  " 

53d  Tenn.  vols.  « 

Co.  C,  25th  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  4th  La.  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  42d  Tenn.  vols,  " 

Co.  I,  4th  La.  vols.  « 

Co.  I,  42d  Tenn.  vol9.  " 

Co.  H,  4th  La.  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  42d  Tenn.  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  9th  Texas  vols.  '^  » 

ct  ii  u 

Co.  I,  2d  Miss.  vols.  « 

Co.  E,  10th  Texas  cavalry,  « 

Co.  n,  9th  Texas  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  42d  Tenn.  vols.  " 

Co.  A,  42d  "  « 

Co.  K,  63d  "  « 

Co.  E,  3l8t  Miss.  vols.  « 

Co.  B,  49th  Tenn.  vols.  « 

Co.  C,  32d  Texas  cavalry,  " 

Co.  A,  Slst  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  4th  "  « 

Co.  H,  63d  Tenn.  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  14th  Texas  vols.  « 

Co.  I,  25th  Arkansas  vols.  « 

Co.  K,  10th  Texas  cavalry,  « 

Co.  A,  42d  Tenn.  vols.  « 

Bradford's  battery,  « 
Co.  C,  5th  La.  vols.                             May  27, 1864. 
Co.  H,  21st  Va.  infantry,                         .    « 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjtitaitt  and  Inspector- OeneraL 


GENERiVL  ORDERS 
No.  50 


5RSA 


108 

Adjutant  and  Ikspectoe-Genehal's  Office, 
Richmond,  Junt  9, 18G4. 


The  following  order  is  published  for  the  iuformation  of  all  con- 
cerned: • 

CoNFEnEKATE    Si'ATES    OP    AMERICA, 

War  Department,  Richmond,  June  6,  1S64. 

Exchange  Notice,  No.  10. 
The  following  notico  is  based  upon  a  recent  declaration  of  exchange 
made  by  the  Federal  authorities,  bearing  date  May  7, 1861,  and  is  sup- 
ported by  valid  Federal  paroles  on  file  in  my  office  : 

Sec.  1.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at 
City  Point,  Virginia,  previous  to  the  1st  of  June  1864,.  are  hereby  de- 
clared to  be  exchanged. 

Sec.  2.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men,  and  all  civilians  who  have 
been  captured  at  any  place,  and  released  oh  joarole  prior  to  May  7, 
186-1,  are  hereby  declared  to  be  exchanged.  This  section,  however,  is 
not  intended  to  include  any  officers  or  men  captured  at  Viclcsburg  July 
4,  1863,  except  such  as  were  declared  exchanged  by  Exchange  Notices 
numbered  six,  seven,  and  eight. 

Ro.   OULD, 
Agent  of  Exclmnge. 
Bj.order. 

S.  COOPER,       . 
Adjutant  rtnd  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"] 

No.  51.  I 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-Geneeal's  Office, 
Richmond,  June  iO,  1864. 


The  following  named  officers  have  resigned,  to  take  effect  from  the 
dates  affixed  to  their  respective  names  : 


Scc'nd  Lt.  L.  B.  Mitchell, 
Captain      K.  R.  Webb, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  W.  Wilkinson, 
Captain     W.  W.  Weatherford, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  D.  M.  Williams, 
Captain     Dan'l  Williams, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  0.  B.  Wright, 
Maj.  Gen.  Wm.  Smith, 
Rev.  L.  C.  Ransom, 

Surgeon    E.  J.  Boweii, 


Co.  E,  42d  Mississippi  vols. 
Co.  D,  33d  " 

Co.  H,  8  th  " 

Co.  E,  16tU  Alabama  vols. 
Co.  H,  2'.id  " 

Co.  K,  1st  Florida  vols. 
Co.  C,  Allison's  squadron 
P.  A.  C.  S. 
20th  Alabama  vols. 
P.  A.  C.  S. 


Jan.    2,  1864. 


Pec.  31, 1863. 
Jan.    4, 1864. 


109 


Surgeon 

IXin'l  P.  Wright, 

3d  Tennessee  vols. 

Jan. 

4, 

1864. 

Ass.  Surg 

.  Ocorgo  Ross, 

P.  A.  0.  S. 

" 

Colonel 

D.  11.  Hamilton, 

1st  South  Carolina  vols. 

" 

" 

Jos.  K.  Gist, 

15th 

Jan. 

5, 

1864. 

U.  Col. 

P.  A.  Work, 

Ist  Texas  vols. 

" 

Major 

Ro.  E.  McMillan, 
J.  n.  Pickett, 

24th  Georgia  vols. 
ITth               " 

II 

Rov. 

11.  S.  Williams, 

45th  Virginia  vols. 

i< 

" 

J.  W.  Ward, 

3d                   " 

«( 

First  Lt. 

J.  R.  Oarrell, 

A.D.  C,  etc. 

II 

Colonel 

D.  W.  Hurst, 

33d  Mississippi  vols. 

ti 

Lieut. 

0.  M.  Hoke, 

Adjutant  21st  North  Carolina  vols. 

Jan. 

6. 

1894. 

Rev. 

Samuel  H.  Smith, 

Chaplain  60th  Georgia  vols. 

II 

Mil  j  or 

J.  A.  Stewart, 

18th  Georgia  vols. 

II 

Lt.CoI. 

S.  II.  Van  Divioro, 

52.1 

i< 

First  Lt. 

T.  A.  Hatch, 

Adjutant  3Cth  Alabama  vols. 

i< 

Lt.  Col. 

H.  C.  Gillespie, 

2d  Tennessee  cavalry 

II 

Captain 

A.  A.  Stewart, 

Co.  K,  6th  battalion  Florida  vols. 

Jan. 

7, 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

11.  H.  Rogers, 

A.  D.  C,  etc. 

" 

Captain 

C.  II.  Richardson, 

Co.  E,  57  th  Georgia  vols. 

i< 

" 

C.  11.  Andrews, 

Co.  D,  3d            « 

(i 

« 

.E.  G.  Scrugg.s, 

Co.  A,  4Sth        " 

II 

" 

W.  R.  Wood, 

Oo.  G.  1st  North  Carolina  cavalry 

i< 

« 

D.  H.  Smith, 

Co.  I,  41th  North  Carolina  vols. 

i< 

« 

C.  S.  Brown, 

Co.  D,  11th 

u 

« 

James  Buchanan, 
Willis  Parker, 

Co.  B,  45th  Virginia  vols. 

Co.  I.  —  regiment  Thomas'  legion 

IC 

II 

« 

A.  J.  Leggett, 

Co.  G,  7tli  bat.  Mississippi  vols. 

(1 

Colonel 

George  C.  Qibbs, 

42<1  North  Carolina  vols. 

II 

Captain 

Gaston  D.  Cobb, 

Co.  1,  8th         " 

Jan. 

1, 

1864. 

u 

J.  S.  Wiggins, 

Co.  A,  4th  Georgia  cavalry 

Dec. 

20, 

1863. 

« 

B.  A.  Cole. 

Co.  L,  154th  Tennessee  vols. 

Jan. 

30, 

1864. 

li 

W.  H.  Fowler, 

Artillery  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Jan. 

8, 

1864. 

« 

George  C.  Howard, 

Co.  K,  5l8t  Tennessee  vols. 

<i 

« 

W.  T.  Miller, 

Co.  D,  16th  and  25th  La.  vols. 

i< 

« 

James  G.  Neal, 

Co.  B,  9lh  Kentucky  cavalry 

II 

u 

Cyrus  U.  Higginson 

,  Co.  C.  4th  Kentucky  vols. 

" 

« 

S.  D.  McClelen, 

Co.  F,  58th  Alabam.i  vols. 

i< 

« 

M.  Patterson, 

Co.  Q.  36th         " 

II 

(1 

A.  M.  Reinhart, 

Co.  A,  43d  Georgia  vols. 

■ii 

11 

W.  W.  Brown, 

Co.  H,  52d        " 

i< 

u 

D.  P.  Luke, 

Co.  I,  50th         « 

II 

II 

A.  J.  Pool, 

Co.  I,  24th        « 

« 

II 

J.  T.  Russell, 

Co.  C,  47th  Alabama  vols. 

i< 

l< 

U.  BallJnger, 

Co.M,  1st  Texas  vols. 

i< 

■«■ 

Joel  C.  Barnot, 

Co.  G,  Cobb's  legion 

« 

« 

Ro.  Crawford, 

Co.  F,  6th  South  Carolina  vols. 

i< 

gec'nd  LI 

;.  J.  A.  Fisher, 

Co.  B.  19th  bat.  Virginia  artillery 

" 

« 

Victor  Perret, 

Co.  C,  battalion  C.  S.  Zouaves 

Jan. 

9, 

1804. 

Colonel 

R.  McMillan, 

24th  Georgia  vols. 

i< 

10 

110 


First  Lt. 

B.  F.  Kincaid, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

J.  D.  Smith, 

First  Lt. 

Wm.  G.  Brown, 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  G.  W.  Dannelly, 

« 

B.  B.  Chapman, 

First  Lt. 

Ferdinand  Barrow, 

" 

Jos.  II.  Spengler, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

T.  D.  Brittain, 

First  Lt. 

John  M.  rhillipg, 

" 

James  H.  Capers, 

Surgeon 

Wm.  B.  Day, 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

,  Thomas  F.  Pierce, 

" 

James  Cody, 

a 

H.  Nichols, 

Ass.  Surg. 

John  T.  Palmer, 

" 

J.  H.  Vaughan, 

Sec'ud  Lt. 

6.  "SV.  Dickson, 

Lieut. 

V.  M.  Brandon, 

First  Lt. 

0.  N.  HoUingsworth, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

S.  P.  Bailey, 

(( 

W.  N.  Griffin, 

« 

Wm.  Lawler, 

First  Lt. 

John  J.  Kimbrough, 

Ass.  Surg 

.  D.  P.  Gibson, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

M.  A.  Wilkins, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  M.  Osborn, 

« 

T.  E.  Hill, 

Chaplain 

J.  II.  Curamings, 

Captain 

Th.  Podevils, 

« 

W.  H.  Maltby, 

Chaplain 

J.  J.  Loomis, 

Ass.  Surg 

.  J.  N.  B.  Gwinn, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  C.  W.  Fitz, 

First  Lt. 

J.  B.  Hereford, 

Captain 

M.  W.  King, 

« 

J.  G.  McKuight, 

Major 

p.  Berand, 

Lieu  ten' t 

B.  H.  Slaughter, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  A.  Marburger, 

Captain  - 

W.  H.  Tucker, 

« 

A.  B.  Parrott, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  W.  R.  Womack, 

« 

M.  Winston, 

First  Lt. 

0.  L.  Chamberlain, 

« 

C.  Partain, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Jno.  Carnes, 

First  Lt. 

J.  A.  Ferguson^ 

Captain 

R.  C.  Nunnally, 

" 

T.  Taylor, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  John  Tyler, 

Co.  E,  2d  Georgia  vols.  Jan.  9,  1864. 

Co.  I,  5l8t        "  " 

Co.  D,  59th      "  « 

Co.  B,  1st  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  13th               "  " 

Co.  F,  42d  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  35th  bat.  Virginia  cavalry  " 

Co.  I,  16th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  Q,  14th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Adjutant  12th  Mississippi  vols.  " 
P.  A.  C.  S.                                           Jan.    1,  1864." 
Forrest  Art'ly,  Georgia  State  Guards  Jan.  11,  1864. 

Co.  E,  7th  Con.  States  cavalry  " 

Co.  G,  5th  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

17th  Georgia  vols.  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.  « 

Co.  F,  18th  bat.  Miss.  par.  rangers  " 

Co.  C,  1st  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Adjutant  3d  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  D,  10th  Texas  cavalry  (dism'd)  " 

Co.  G,  7th  Tennessee  cavalry  " 
Co.  F,  35th  Alabama  vols.  ^  " 
Co.  I,  6th            "                                          " " 

15th  Louisiana  vols.  " 
Co.  F,  2d  Ark.  mounted  rifles          '   Nov.    7,  1863. 

Co.  F,  Bates'  regiment  " 

Adjutant  Bonner's  bat.  cavalry  " 

32d  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  F,  32d  Texas  cavalry  « 

Artillery  8th  Texas  regiment  " 

21st  Texas  vols.  " 

18th            "  « 

Co.  G,  28th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  8th            "  « 

Co.  G,  16th  Texas  cavalry  « 

Co.  K,  17th  Texas  consolidated  " 

Yellow  Jacket  battalion  " 

Co.  F,  8th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co.  Q,  4th  Texas  mounted  vols.  " 

"  Co.  G,  28th  Texas  caralry,  dism'd  " 

Co.  D,  4th  Texas  mounted  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  28th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  4th  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  G,  2d  Louisiana  cavalry  '• 

Co.  B,  Hill's  regiment  " 

Co.  L,  21st  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  F,  Thompson's  Arkansas  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  Shelby's  regiment  " 

Co.  B,  Thompson's  Arkansas  cavalry  " 

Co.  A,  Green's  regiment  " 


Ill 


Sec'nd  Lt. 


Captain 
Scc'iiJ  Lt. 
Ass.  Surg. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Kirst  Lt. 
Ass.  Surg. 
Captain 
Miijor 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Fij-st  Lt. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 


First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt, 


Surgeon 
C-nplain 

First  Lt. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Surgeon 
Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt, 
First  LU 
ft 

Captain 
Chaplain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt- 
Major 
Lienten't 
Captain 
Sec'nd  LI 


B.  R.  Jacobs, 
II.  M.  Gragg. 

C.  U.  llamilton, 

C.  R.  riiillips, 
R.  0.  Nail, 
J.  G.  West, 
II.  N.  Austin, 
J.  T.  Sliort, 
W.  R.  Suddon, 

,  A.  G.  Quarles, 
J.  S.  Ilerriford, 
L.  A.  Campbell, 
J.  II.  Stowe, 
J.  llalloway, 
H.  E.  Carrington, 
T.  Ballanco, 
W.  R.  Walker, 
S.  M.  Jester, 
T.  Cbenevert, 
J.  If.  Bell, 
J.  B.  Bucbanan, 
W.  J.  Ferguson, 
J.  C.  Wbite, 
n.  Angell, 

D.  Castlebcrry, 
A.  N.  Perkins, 
A.  C.  Bauks, 

E.  H.  Kniglit, 
A.  B.  Jones, 
S.  U.  Carroll, 
T.  Danterive, 
M.  Samson, 
J.  Boring, 

S.  L.  Holland, 
E.  Marsball, 
J.  E.  Mclntosb, 
J.  C.  Cline, 
M".  U.  Brenin, 
J.  A.  Scruggs, 
W.  R.  Pittman, 
II.  J.  Tavlor, 
II.  C.  Click, 

.  James  Jeffries, 
J.  C.  Ward, 
r.  R.  Goolsby, 
Thomas  James, 

.  B.  W.  Miillikin, 
E.  H.  Ilendren, 
Alex.  Campbell, 
E.  J.  Mancil, 


Co.  I,  Dawson's  reg't  Ark.  vols.  Nov.  7,  1863. 

i(  tl  U  <<  it 

Co.  I,  3d  Missouri  battery  " 

Co.  K,  King's  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Co.  P,  Dobbins'  regiment  " 

Co.  G,  Lewis'  Missouri  vols.  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.  .  « 

Co.  B,  Dobbins'  regiment  " 

Co.  O,  Lewis'  Missouri  vols.  " 

1'.  A.  C.  S.  .  « 

Co.  C,  Burns'  Missouri  vols.  " 
White's  Missouri  cavalry                      Dec.  1, 1863. 

Co.  D,  Harrison's  Louisiana  cavalry  "     - 

Co.  C,  Stone's  regiment  " 

Co.  F,  4tb  Missouri  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  Kitchen's^cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  8th  Missouri  vols.  " 

Co,  C,  Wood's  battalion  cavalry  " 

Co.  K,  2d  Louisiana  cavalry  " 

Co.  1, 19th  Arkansas  vols.         .  " 

Co.  D,  Grimstead's  regiment  " 

Co.  L,  Monroe's  Arkansas  cavalry  " 

C(  «  U  K  l< 

Gonzales'  light  battery  " 

Co.  F,  11th  Louisiana  battalion  " 
P.  A.  C.  S.                                             Dec.    7,  1863. 

Co.  K,  28th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  Wood's  battalion  cavalry  " 

Adjutant  19th  Texas  vols.  " 

Co.  II,  8th  Missouri  vols.  " 

Co.  D.  Yellow  Jacket  battalion  " 

Co.  K,  2d  Louisiana  cavalry  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.  « 

Co.  F,  13tb  Louisiana  bat.  p.  r.  " 

Co.  D,  Dawson's  regiment  " 

Co.  E,  White's  regiment  " 

Co.  A,  Ist  Texas  cavalry  " 

22d  Texas  vols. ;  " 

Co.  K,  15th  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Co.  I,  Terrell's  regiment  " 

((  ti  u 

Co.  B,  30th  bat.  Texas  State  troops  " 

Hill's  Arkansas  cavalry  "  ' 

Co.  B,  Dawson's  regiment  " 

Co.  C,  Benson's  squadron  '• 
Co.  B.  37th  bat.  Virginia  cavalry       Jan.  12,  18M- 

Co.  B,  6itb  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  22d  bat.  Georgia  artillery  " 

Capt.  Curry's  co.,  4th  bat.  Fla.  vols.  " 


112 


Sec'nd  Lt. 

W.  B.  Hilton, 

Co.  E,  ii<X  South  Carolina  vols. 

Jan.  12,  1864. 

« 

B.  P.  Brockington, 

Co.  C,  2oth               " 

" 

i( 

T.  0.  Orr, 

Co.  G;  22d                 « 

« 

u 

E.  T.  Matthews, 

Co.  I,  3.3d  Alabama  vols. 

« 

«' 

Geo.  W.  Metcalfe, 

Co.  G,  IGth        " 

If 

First  Lt. 

W.  L.  Mikell, 

Co.  G,  7th  Mississippi  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

Tiiouias  Hicks, 

Co.  K,  29th  Tennessee  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

Kelles  Farrar, 

Co.  D,  2d           " 

" 

<' 

Wm.  ir.  Mcares, 

Co.  D,  1st  Arkansas  vols. 

" 

Captain 

George  Ilillyer, 

Co.  C,  9th  Georgia  vols. 

Oct.  16, 1863. 

First  Lt. 

0.  H.  Anderson, 

Co.  D,  2Sth  Tennessee  vols. 

Jan,  13,  1864. 

" 

D.  M.  Prewitt, 

Co.  D,  36th  Alabama  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  H.  Cleveland, 

Ca  P,  5th  Kentucky  vols. 

" 

Rov.      . 

0.  D.  FitzgeraVd, 

Chaplain  32d  Mississippi  vols. 

" 

Snrgeon 

B.  T.  Marshall, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

Major 

A.  R.  H.  Ranson, 

C.  S.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Captain 

W.  Edward  Dick, 

A.  C.  S.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

Lt.  Col.  • 

0.  P.  Anthony, 

51st  Georgia  vols. 

Jan.  14,  1864. 

Soc'nd  Lt. 

,  John  Weaver, 

Co.  E,  4th  bat.  local  defence 

" 

First  Lt. 

Clem.  C.  Moore, 

Co.  A,  43d  Mississippi  vols. 

« 

« 

T.  C.  Davis, 

Co.  I,  3d  Kentucky  vols. 

" 

<i 

Thos.  J.  Chandler, 

Co.  D,  2d  Missouri  cavalry 

(t 

Bec'nd  Lt, 

.  Aaron  D.  Lichljter, 

"                        " 

" 

Burgeon 

J.  M.  Keller, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

.  Jo.s.  R.  Gentry, 

Co.  K,  2i5th  North  Carolina  vols. 

u 

First  Lt. 

B.  F.  Simmons, 

Co.  B,  8frh                 " 

« 

Ass.  Surg, 

.  R.  W.  I'Auson, 

2d  North  Carolina  cavalry 

« 

Captain 

Jno.  M.Williams, 

Co.  D,  4th  Virginia  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

G.  B.  Beecher, 

Co.  A,  Phillips'  legion  cavalry 

« 

Surgeon 

J.  W.  Barnett, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

(( 

First  Lt. 

W.  P.  Dawson, 

Co.  H,  50th  Tennessee  vols. 

Jan.  15, 1864, 

« 

James  Dunn, 

Co.  F, 

<( 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  B.  Cox, 

Co.  G,                « 

« 

Captain 

T.  M.  Rcstis, 

Co.  K,               " 

■  « 

11 

E.  G.  Sejfton, 

Co.  II,                " 

« 

Soc'nd  Lt 

.  P.  B.  Harrell, 

Co.  F,           '     " 

« 

" 

Goo.  W.  Settle, 

Co.  H,                « 

« 

First  Lt. 

W.  T.  Thomas, 

Co.  I,                  " 

(( 

Captain 

W.  C.  Allen, 

Co.  A,                " 

" 

« 

Perry  Adcock, 

Co:  C,  1st  Tennessee  bitt.alion 

» 

First  Lt. 

J.  II.  Bryan, 

Co.  B, 

u 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  David  C.  Bein, 

Co.  C,                        " 

« 

" 

S.  V.  McManus, 

Co.  B,                         " 

« 

« 

P.  P.  Trewitt, 

Co.  D,                         « 

" 

First  Lt. 

James  E.  Black, 

Enrolling  ofBcer 

Jan.  16,1864. 

Uouten't 

W.  C.  Carrington, 

A.  D.  C.                                         ■ 

« 

Captain 

Wm.  W.  Old, 

A.  Q.M.  P.  A.C.  S. 

<' 

-      « 

M.White, 

Oo.  I,  57th  Alabama  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

M,  D.  Bringier, 

A.  D.  C. 

a 

fk-c'nd  Lt 

.  Alex.  Jones, 

Co.  A,  16th  Arkansas  vols. 

« 

113 


Major 
First  Lt. 
Lt.  Col. 


First  Lt.    T.  J.  Key, 

"  M.  L.  BradoD, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  S.  E.  Brown, 
Captain     J.  M.  Campbell, 
First  Lt.    Jos.  A.  Blanco, 

"  James  E.  Loyless, 

Sec'ud  Lt.  II.  D.  Prondergast, 

"  W.  G.  RusseU, 

Surgeon     John  D.  Stuart, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Jolin  T.  Perry, 
"  H.  Anderson, 

"  Tlios.  M.  Peters, 

First  Lt.     U.  Chenault, 
Major        J.  L.  Blackwcll, 
Ass.  Surg.  M.  S.  Waters, 
Surgeon     Jno.  M.  Johnson, 
"  S.  L.  Nidelet, 

T.  Hawkins, 
W.  T.  Lanier, 
J.  W.  Echols, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Thos.  F.  Sowoll, 
Captain      A.  S.  Kirk, 
Colonel      Wm.F.  Dowd, 
Captain      W.  C.  McQuiston, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  II.  H.  Skaggs, 

«  J.  L.  Davis, 

First  Lt.    Geo.  N.  Green, 

"  F.  A.  Tompkins, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  E.  B.  Blackburn, 
Colonel      W.  J.  Young, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  B.  L.  Clark, 
Captain      C.  C.  Callau, 
Firet  Lt.    James  A.  Davis, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  James  Finnegan, 
Captain     0.  C.  Hopkins, 
C.  D.  Anderson, 
A.  S.  Smith, 
W.  A.  M.ayfield, 
James  P.  Smith, 
James  S.  Britain, 
Wni.  0.  Monroe, 
T.  U.  Wade, 
Gilbert  Elliott, 
Wm.  G.  Gambling, 
J.M.  Brockcnbrough 
James  0.  Branch, 
J.  L.  Addcrton, 
G.  St.  Leger  Gronfel, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  M.  11.  Fletcher, 
"  II.  C.  Wilson, 

10* 


Lt.  Col. 
Rev. 

Captain 
First  Lt. 


Captain 
Colonel 
First  Lt. 
Captain 
Lt.  Col. 


Co.  B,  Bonard's  battalion  S.  A.  Jan.  16,  1864. 

Co.  C,  12th  bat.  Ga.  light  artillery  " 

U                    it                                  t<  u 

Co.  A,  22d  bat.  Georgia  artillery  " 

Co.  H,  Ist  Georgia  regulars  " 

Co.  B,  6th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  10th  Texas  vols.  Jan.  18, 1864. 

Co.  C,  35th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

65th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  58th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  58th           «  " 

Scott's  battery  " 

Co.  K,  2d  Tennessee  vols.                  .  ". 

6th  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

Ist                  «  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.      '  " 

"  Jan.    1,1864. 

Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S.  Jan,  19,  1864. 

Co.  B,  5th  Arkansas  vols.  " 

.'14th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  36th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  35th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

24th                     «  " 

Co.  A,  46th         «  " 

Co.  D,  8th          "  " 

Co.  E,  7  th          "  " 

Co.  B,  65th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  b,  5th            "  " 

Co.  B,  52a            "  " 

29th                     "  " 

Co.  A ,  Lee'B  rangers  Jan.  20, 1864. 

Winder  rangers,  Maryland  line  " 

Co.  G,  Ist  Maryland  infantry  " 

Co.  H,  1st                 "  " 

K  troop,  5th  Georgia  cavalry  " 

6th  Georgia  vols.  ■         " 

Chaplain  11th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  2d  Louisiana  vols.  " 

A.  D.  C.  " 

Co.  II,  12tli  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  7th  Alabama  cavalry  " 

Co.  B,  6th  Tc\as  cavalry  " 

Adjutant  17th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  7th  Georgia  State  Guards  Jan.  11, 1861. 

,  401h  Virginia  vols.  Jan.  21, 1861. 

Co.  C,  51st  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  10th  bat.  Georgia  vols.  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.  '! 

Co.  B,  5Cth  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  66th        "  " 


114 


Sec'ndLt.Dan'l  A.  Sullivan, 

Co.  G,  65th  Georgia  vols. 

Jan. 

21,  1864. 

«           M.  L.  McDonald, 

Co.  H,  34th       « 

« 

First  Lt.    J.  L.  Page, 

Co.  E,  4th  Louisiana  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  D.  S.  McMahon, 

Co.  L,  4th  Tennessee  cavalry 

c< 

"          •  Wm.  Light, 

Co.  H,  4th           « 

» 

First  Lt.    M.  M.  Freeman, 

Co.  D,  6th  Georgia  cavalry 

<( 

Sec'nd  Lt.  John  W.  Oneal, 

Co.  F,  4th              « 

Jan.  22, 1864. 

Major        L.  Guthrie, 

43d  Tennessee  vols. 

I( 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  S.  Allen, 

Co.  E,  8th  Tennessee  cavalry 

« 

First  Lt.    Burke  Bond, 

11th                   « 

V 

"           John  II.  SUeppard, 

Co.  B,  48th  Alabama  vols. 

i( 

Major        Dan'l  L.  Cox, 

2d  South  Carolina  rifles 

» 

Captain     Jos.  W.  Keeder,_ 

19th  Virginia  cavalry 

" 

First  Lt.    TVm.  Hostottle, 

»               ((                 u 

" 

"           Herman  Schuricht, 

Co.  D,  14th  Virginia  cavalry 

a 

Captain     Isaac  H.  Means,     , 

A.  Q.  M.  17th  South  Carolina  vols. 

Jan. 

23, 1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  W.  B.  Hilton, 

Co.  E,  22d                    « 

(( 

"           Jackson  Gaines, 

Co.  E,  Holcombe  legion 

(( 

"           James  M.  Ford, 

Co.  D,  60th  N.  C.  vols. 

« 

Captain      Benjamin  Boone, 

Co.  K,  41st  Tenn.  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  M.  Roberta, 

Co.  G,  5th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Captain     John  G.  White, 

Co.  I,  7  th  Alabama  cavalry 

" 

"            John  Green, 

Co.  L,  7th              " 

(I 

Lieuten't  Wm.  H.  Biuford, 

Adjutant                " 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Wm.  Lyons, 

Co.  L,  7th               « 

" 

"            H.  C.  Burnett, 

Co.  B,  7  th               "  . 

« 

"            John  F.  Sisemore, 

Co.  F,  7  th               « 

" 

"            Geo.  W.  Huggius, 

Co.  I,  ISth  N.  C.  vols. 

Jan. 

25, 1864. 

First  Lt.    S.  K.  Nelson, 

Co.  C,  62d  Virginia  vols. 

" 

Major        John  J.  Longmire, 

234  Alabama  vols. 

(( 

Captain     A.  II.  Morria, 

Co.  B,  65th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Major         J.  R.  Parrott, 

Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Jan, 

.  26, 1864 

Captain     J.  G,  Board, 

Co.  E,  28th  Virginia  vols. 

a 

,  Sec'nd  Lt.  John  H.  Sale, 

Co.  B,  18th  bafn  Ya..  heavy  art'ry 

• 

li 

Rev.           W.  D.  McCulloh, 

Chaplain  23d  Mississippi  vols. 

(< 

Lt.  Col.      Wra.  S.  Patton, 

37th  Mississippi  vols. 

(( 

"           Jas.  O'Connell, 

22d  South  Carolina  vols. 

« 

Captain      Samuel  Lord,  Jr., 

Co.  C,  27th        « 

<c 

"   '        Wm.  A.  Lane, 

Co.  D,  20th  bat'n  Georgia  cavah-y 

" 

First  Lt.    J.  P.  Wilson, 

Co.  D,|Stephens'  battalion 

» 

Sec'nd  Lt.  0.  C.  Wheeler, 

Co.  E,  22d  North  Carolina  vols. 

(( 

Colonel      H.  P.  Bell, 

43d  Georgia  vols. 

Dec. 

18, 1863. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  John  0.  GartrcU, 

Co.  B,  Phillips'  bat.  Ga.  St.  Guarda 

Jan. 

27, 1864. 

"            J.  W.  Vinson, 

Co.  A,  Lofton's  regiment 

" 

Captain      J.  A.  Cook, 

Co.  I,  31st  Arkansas  vols. 

>( 

Ass.  Surg.  W.  E.  Jones, 

3d  Mississippi  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt.  L.  Gilreath, 

Co.  B,  55th  North  Carolina  vols. 

" 

Major         H,  D.  Lee, 

16th                         " 

(( 

Sec'nd  Lt.  P.  C.  Colvin, 

Co.  E,  18th             " 

" 

First  Lt.    Jas.  W.  Jones,  Jr., 

Co.  A,  5th  Virginia  vols. 

" 

115 


First  Lt. 

Samuel  Paul, 

Co.  D,  52d  Virginia  vols. 

Jan. 

27, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  John  S.  Hickman, 

Co.  D,  20th  Virginia  cavalry 

« 

Brig.  Gen 

.  11.  W.  Allen, 

P.  A.G.  S. 

Jan. 

10, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Q.  W.  Dees, 

Co.  F,  57th  Alabama  vols. 

•< 

Captain 

n.  J.  Raphael, 

A.  Q.  M.  8th 

Feb. 

1, 

1864. 

" 

R.  B.  Bedell, 

Co  D,  46th              " 

Jan. 

28, 

1864. 

Lt.  Col. 

W.  C.  Patterson, 

80th                       " 

" 

Captain 

B.  S.  Chamberlain, 

Co.  A,  24th             " 

" 

« 

John  0.  Davis, 

Co.  B,  37th             " 

{< 

First  ,Lt. 

W.  P.  Bollah, 

Co.  6,  41st  Georgia  vols. 

i< 

« 

J.  E.  Blaclistock, 

Co.  E,  56th             " 

•  c< 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Thomas  J.  Bounds, 

Co.  C,  8th  Arkansas  vola. 

l< 

« 

W.  S.  Dotson, 

Co.  C,  40th  Mississippi  vols. 

« 

« 

Sanders  Swaflfer, 

Co.  F,  4th               " 

« 

First  Lt. 

J.  R.  McGee, 

Co.  I,  4th  Tennessee  cavalry 

I< 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Jos.  T.  Vest, 

Co.  D,  Arsenal  battalion 

Jan. 

29, 

1864. 

" 

S.  D.  Lawrence, 

Co.  D,  Ist  Maryland  cavalry 

« 

First  Lt. 

Wm.  J.  Vizer, 

French's  battery 

" 

" 

Wm.  L.  Torvence, 

Co.  K,  23d  North  Carolina  vols. 

u 

Captain 

J.  Q.  Sanders, 

Co.  C,  31st  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  John  T.  Anthony, 

Co.  U,  26th  Alabama  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

Antony  C.  Pate, 

Dooly  vols. 

Jan. 

30, 

1864- 

Captain 

John  T.  Dent, 

Co.  H,  8th  reg't  Ga.  State  Guards 

« 

u 

J.  M.  Whorter, 

Co.  H,  3d       "                  " 

« 

Ass.  Surg 

,  J.  B.  Saunders, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

.  L.  C.  Kibler, 

Co.  II,  Ilolcombe  legion 

« 

First  Lt. 

J.  R.  McManns, 

Co.  A,  54th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Rev. 

W.  J.  Duval, 

Chaplain  3d  Florida  vols. 

Feb. 

1, 

1864. 

SurgeoB 

J.  W.  Pitts, 

34th  Alabama  vols. 

ti 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  R.  Tonuley, 
A.  P.  R.  Ratcliffe, 

Co.  L,  56th  Alabama  vols. 
Co.  C,  20th  Virginia  cavalry 

c< 

First  Lt. 

R.  P.  Smith, 

Co.  1, 14th  Virginia  vols. 

M 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

,  John  Wright, 

Co.  A,                     " 

U 

Captain 

Joseph  Graham, 

Poagne's  artillery  battalion 

(f 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

,  0.  W.  Armstrong, 

Cb.  D,  10th  Tennessee  cavalry 

Feb. 

2, 

1864. 

u 

W.  S.  Littloton, 

Co.  B,  9th               " 

« 

« 

W.  J.  Pauley, 

Co.  F,  8th  Virginia  cavalry 

« 

If 

M.  A.  Martin,  Jr., 

Co.  I,  21st  Mississippi  vols. 

i< 

Captain 

J.  W.  Wolls, 

Co.  n,  50th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Rev. 

William  Flinii, 

Chaplain  16th        " 

(< 

Major 

S.  B.  Spencer, 

20th  battalion  Georgia  cavalry 

It 

Brig.  Gen 

.  John  C.  Mooro, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Feb. 

3. 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

Jesse  Martin, 

Co.  I,  5th  Tennessee  cavalry 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

Joseph  Rinchart, 

Co.  F,  Ist  Virginia  cavalry 

<< 

Colonel 

W.  B.  Ball, 

15th 

« 

Captain 

W.  R.  Lyman, 

Co.  B,  Slst  Virginia  vols. 

» 

« 

11.  C.  Fito, 

Co.  H,37th  North  Carolina  vols. 

i< 

Cl 

D.  F.  Berry, 

Co.  K.  31st  .irkansas  vols. 

Feb. 

4, 

1864. 

Rev. 

W.  B.  Gallman, 

Chaplain  6th  Mississippi  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

,  D.  R.  Majes, 

Co.  K,  nth            « 

(( 

116 


Captain 

Francis  U.  Bond, 

Co.  A,  1st  North  Carolina  vols. 

Feb, 

.4, 

1864. 

« 

Thomas  D.  Kinden, 

Co.  A,  45th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

John  B.  Beall, 

Co.  H,  19th             " 

Sec'nd  Lt.  E.  L.  Bird, 

Co.  D,  21st  bat'n  Georgia  cavalry 

Captain 

John  W.  Mitchell, 

Co.  C,  17th  South  Carolina  vols. 

Lieuten't 

B.  L.  Barn, 

Adjutant  IstS.  C.  State  troops 

Colonel 

F.  W.  Adams, 

38th  Mississippi  vols. 

Sept.  24, 

1862. 

Captain 

V.  L.  Hopson, 

A.  C.  S.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Feb. 

5, 

1864. 

Lieuten't 

A.  J.  Hanson, 

A.  B.C. 

(< 

First  Lt. 

B.  J.  F.  Cotton, 

Co.  E,  24th  Mississippi  vols. 

<< 

(( 

A.  W.  N.  Wilson, 

Co.  C,  34th  Georgia  vols.  . 

« 

« 

J.  W.  Johnstpn, 

Co.  G,  56th             " 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  S.  H.  Harris, 

Co.  H,  36th             « 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  M.  Parker, 

Co.  E,  23d  Alabama  vols. 

Feb. 

5, 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

J.  W.  Montgomery, 

Co.  K,  19th 

" 

« 

S.  H.  Wheeler, 

Co.  F,  2d  Tennessee  cavalry 

" 

Major 

John  E.  Nensum, 

4th  Alabama,  cavalry 

" 

Captain 

Jeremiah  Dailey, 

Co.  E,  4th  Alabama  cavalry 

(I 

« 

Thomas  J.  Warren, 

Co.  B,                      " 

u 

Lieuten't 

James  H.  Weir, 

Co.—,                    " 

u 

Major 

Thomas  F.  Holmes, 

35th  Mississippi  vols. 

Feb. 

6, 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

J.  T.  Kerr, 

Co.  B,  35th  Mississippi  vols. 

" 

Soc'nd  Lt.  Janies  W.  Foutcli, 

Co.  A,  Allison's  squadron 

« 

Captain 

C.  W.  Foster, 

Co.  D,  37  th  Alabama  vols. 

M 

Major 

S.  F.  Williams, 

65th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

Jesse  Brewer, 

Co.  H,  25th  Georgia  vols. 

" 

Captain 

R.  J.  Wilson, 

Co.  I,  48th             «  . 

« 

Rev. 

William  Hauser, 

Chaplain                " 

>C 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Geo.  L.  Richardson, 

Co.  A,  42d  Virginia  vols. 

« 

Sig.  S'gt 

Paul  F.  Hammond, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Major 

J.  Thompson, 

A.  A.  G.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  H.  H.  Stone, 

Co.  K,  62d  Virginia  vols. 

Feb. 

8, 

1864. 

Captain 

J.  P.  Daniel, 

Co.  B,  34th  Georgia  vols. 

It 

Rev. 

A.  P.  Smith, 

Chaplain  2d  South  Carolina  vols. 

i( 

Captain 

W.  B.  Jones, 

Co.  F,  33d  Tennessee  vols.    , 

« 

ti 

J.  H.  Cason, 

Co.  C,  41st  Alabama  vols. 

Feb. 

9j 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

George  W.  Stubbs, 

Co.  H,  37  th            « 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Perry  H.  Satchel-, 

Co.  B,  Stead's  battalion  cavalry 

Feb. 

1, 

,  1864. 

Captain 

C.  T.  Fellowes, 

A.  Q.  M.  P.  A.C.  S. 

Feb. 

10, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  F.  T.  Boggs, 

Captain  Curliu's  comp'y  loc.  def  e 

" 

" 

George  H.  Tardy, 

Co.  C,  22d  Louisiana  vols. 

(1 

Captain 

S.  0.  Pryor, 

Co.  A,  12th  Georgia  vols. 

(1 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  H.  N.  Hagin, 

Co.  K,  60th             " 

" 

« 

W.  H.  Barr, 

Co.  D,  3d  North  Carolina  vols. 

« 

« 

John  Padgett, 

Capt.  Robinson's  comp'y  p.  rangers  Feb. 

H; 

,1864. 

« 

W.  W.  Jordan, 

Co.  H,  6th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

Reuben  Mayo, 

Co.  B,2Sth             « 

f( 

Sec'nd  Lt.  E.  De  Berry, 

Co.  I,  6th  South  Carolina  cavalry 

" 

Captain 

G.  W.  L.  Fortune, 

Co.  0,  1st  Missis.sippi  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt.  William  Williams, 

Co.  K,  2d  Arkansas  mount'd  reg't 

<( 

117 


Sec'nd  Lt 

.  P.  n.  Adams, 

Co.  I,  24th  South  Carolina  vols. 

Fob. 

11. 

ISM. 

Captain 

J.  R.  Francis, 

Co.  D,  63d  Virginia  vols. 

" 

First  Lt. 

L.  F.  Dozicr, 

Adjutant  2l8t  South  Carolina  vols. 

.  Feb. 

1, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  D.  Gibson, 

Co.  E,  17th  Te.\as  cavalry 

Doc. 

28, 

1863. 

Captain 

William  Jameson, 

A.  Q.  M.  9th  Arkan.sas  vols. 

Feb. 

12, 

1864. 

" 

George  W.  Mott, 

Co.  P,  2d  Missouri  cavalry 

«< 

t( 

J.  L.  Finley, 

Co.  C,  10th  Mississippi  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

James  Banks, 

Co.  I,  ."eth  Alabama  vols. 

" 

i< 

James  D.  Riddock, 

Co.  K,  37  th             " 

i< 

Lt.  Col. 

Lemnol  Hargrove, 

39th                        " 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

,  E.  P.  Harris, 

Co.  F,  20fh              " 

« 

Drill  ma'i 

■  Jolin  0.  Rencher, . 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Feb. 

12. 

1864. 

Colonel 

W.  D.  Holder, 

17th  Mississippi  vols. 

Jan. 

20, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  C.  Campbell, 

Co.  K,  19th  Virginia  cavalry 

Feb. 

13, 

1864. 

" 

Goo.  W  Francisco, 

Co  C.  7th  battalion  Con.  cavalry 

•« 

(< 

Andrew  Mullin, 

Co.  B, 

u 

Major 

R.  I).  Minor, 

4th  battalion  local  defence 

u 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  T.  C.  Byars, 

Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S. 

«« 

Captain 

S.  C.  Moore, 

Co.  1, 11th  Mississippi  vols. 

l< 

" 

L.A.Nash, 

Co.  C,  •Ith  Georgia  vols. 

<t 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  S.  W.  Humphries, 

Co.  E,  15th  South  Carolina  vols. 

" 

Surgeon 

E.  H.  Pritchett, 

35th  Georgia  vols. 

l( 

" 

A.  Jones, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Dec. 

29, 

1863. 

Cbaplaiu 

J.  McCarly, 

Pindall's  sharp-shooters 

u 

Sea'ud  Lt 

.  N.  F.  Heath, 

Co.  I,  ISth  Texas  infantry 

tC 

« 

S.  M.  O'Brian, 

Co.  A,                    " 

« 

« 

J.  N. Chapman, 

Co.  K,                    " 

(C 

(I 

W.  J.  Richey, 

Co.  G,                     ". 

<l 

First  Lt. 

G.  F.  Bird, 

Co.  A,  ICth  Texas  dism'd  cavalry 

« 

Captain 

H.  B.  Wear, 

Co.  I,  Davies'  regiment 

(1 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  J.  M.  Clarkston, 
J.  Brown, 

Co.  D.  Wood's  battalion  cavalry 
Co.  B,                      « 

<l 

<i 

J.  H.  Hallis, 

Co.  A, 

« 

Captain 

J.Bledsoe, 

Bledsoe's  Missouri  battery 

<c 

First  Lt. 

J.  B.  Smith, 

Co.  F,  8th  Missouri  infantry 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  W.  Moody, 

Co.  G,  Debray's  regiment 

K 

« 

John  H.  Drowry, 

Co.  F,  Dawson's  regiment 

Dec. 

30, 1863. 

Captain 

J.  H.  Hanson, 

Co.  F,  Monroe's  regiment 

«' 

« 

W.  F.  Gl.asgow, 

Co.  E,  12th  Arkansas  iu'fantry 

» 

« 

W.  B.  Ragl.aud, 

A.  Q.  M. 

«< 

" 

W.  J.  Smith, 

Co.  F,  Bell's  regiment 

« 

Firet  Lt, 

Miles  F.  Moore, 

Co.  H,  'iOth  Ark.ansas  infantry 

It 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

.  Luke  D.  Chaddick, 

Co.  F,  4th  Missouri  cavalry 

" 

First  Lt. 

A.  J.  Simons, 

Pratt's  battery  light  artillery 

(i 

Captain 

E.  0.  Bowon, 

Co.  K,  8th  Missouri  infantry 

(( 

" 

C.  McBrido, 

Co.  F,  1st  Texas  cavalry 

« 

" 

P.  Wngncr, 

Co.  B,  3d  Texas  infantry 

« 

" 

E.  Toole, 

Co.  — ,              " 

(t 

Soc'nd  Lt 

.  A.  B.  Hudson, 

Co.  B,  35th  Texas  cavalry 

<c 

First  Lt. 

J.  B.  Hibbotls, 

Co.  I,  Dobray'e  regiment 

(1 

118 


First  Lt. 

J.  0.  Shelby, 

Captain 

J.  W.  Stansbury, 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  A.  N.  Wilbanks, 

Surgeon 

B.  F.  Dial, 

Captain 

F.  A.  Fenner, 

•  " 

T.  P.  Hightower, 

(f 

P.  Voigt, 

First  Lt. 

W.  A.  Innker, 

« 

T.  G.  Searcy, 

First  Lt. 

B.  Teah, 

Captain 

John  Long, 

Chaplain 

Charles  Goldlong, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  R.  n.  Finly, 

« 

W.  V.  Meador, 

« 

J.  A.  Cabaniss, 

« 

Otterson  Smith, 

First  Lt. 

John  Beasley, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Isaac  Ledbetter, 

Key. 

T.  D.  Gwinn, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  L.  R.  Stark, 

" 

F.  A.  Lassiter, 

Major 

N.  A.  Isom, 

Captain 

0.  W.  Kennedy, 

II 

W.  W.  Hall, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  L.  R.  Burress, 

<i 

Zachariah  Lea, 

Lt.  Col. 

W.  A.  Hewlett, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  R.  N.  Johnson, 

Captain 

William  H.  Carroll, 

« 

R.  P.  Eberhart, 

i: 

F.  D.  Dismuke, 

Major 

M.M.R.  McLaughlin, 

Captain 

Joseph  F.  Harding, 

(( 

W.  L.  Glass, 

« 

A.  0.  Dickinson, 

First  Lt. 

Z.  McDonald, 

« 

A.  L.  Oslin, 

" 

W.  B.  Randolph, 

It 

A.  W.  Hutchins, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  C.Benthall, 

<t 

■William  Henderson, 

Chaplain 

0.  M.  Madison, 

" 

J.  C.  "Woodlaw, 

Capjain 

F.  W.  Minor, 

First  Lt.' 

James  Weltman, 

« 

James  Haley,   ; 

Major 

John  Donelson, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Samuel  B.  Murphy, 

Lt.  Col. 

W.  W.  Breazeat, 

Captain 

D.  W.  Craig, 

Dec.  30,1863. 


Aug.  18, 1862. 
Feb.  15, 1864. 


Co.  I,  35th  Texas  cavalry  Dec.  30,  1863. 

Co.  B,  23d     _  "  " 

Co.  B,  Stone's  regiment  " 

1st  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  C,  4th  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  B,  Waller's  battalion  " 

Co.  B,  8th  Texas  infantry  " 

Co.  E,  Speight's  battalion  •  " 

Co.  D,  8th  Texas  infantry  " 
Co.  E,  13th  Texas  dism'd  cavalry 
Co.  B,                     " 
18th  Texas  infantry 
Cameron's  battery 
Co.  G,  15th  Texas  vols. 
Co.  A_,  21st  Texas  cavalry 
Co.  G,  48th  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  D,  eotb  "  " 

Co.  G,  3d  Tennessee  vols.  " 

Chaplain  1st  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Ferguson's  battery  *' 

Co.  G,  34th  Mississippi  vols.  " 
29th                         "  " 

A.  Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S.  " 
Co.  D,  27th  Mississippi  vols.              Dec.  19, 1863. 
Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S.                        Feb.  16, 1864. 

Co.  A,  4th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

56th  Alabama  vols.  '* 
■  Co.  C,  15th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  18  th  bat'n  Mississippi  p.  r.  " 
Co.  H,  38th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  I,  13th  "  « 

,  38th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  31st  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  A,  65th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Engineer  troops  Jan.  12, 1864. 

Haldennan's  battery  Jan.  13, 1864. 

Co.  F,  Bell's  Arkansas  infantry  " 

Co.  B,  Stewart's  Texas  infantry  " 

Co.  1, 18th  "  " 

Co.  H,  Brown's.     "  « 

Co.  H,  "  " 

Bates'  "  " 

17  th  Texas  cavalry,  consolidated  " 

A.  Q.  M.  ■  « 

Co.  C.  8th  Texas  vols.  " 

Co.  II,  2d  Texas  cavalry  " 

2d  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  B,  Scanlan's  squadron  " 

2d  Louisiana  cavalry  " 

Co.  I,  9th  Missouri  infantry  " 


no 


Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Surgeon 
Rev. 
Surgeon 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
Lt.  Col. 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 

Lieuton't 
First  Lt. 
Soc'nd  Lt. 
u 

Captain 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Rev. 
Captain 
Major 
First  Lt. 
Sargeon 
Sec'na  Lt. 
First  Lt, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 


Major 
Rov. 

Sec'nd  Lt, 


Rev. 
Captain 

Surgeon 
Sec'nd  Lt. 


First  Lt. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 
Major 
First  Lt. 
Lt.  Col. 
CaptfMD 


Jobn  n.  Grace,  Co.  L,  HiU's  Arkansas  cavalry  Jan.  13,  1864. 

J.  D.  Qirtman,  Benton's  battery  " 

D.  "VVade,  27tii  Virginia  battalion  "Feb.  17, 1864. 

B.  F.  Perry,  Chaplain  37th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Q.  W.  Currey,"'  P.  A.  C.  S.  " 

John  Sansom,  Co.  A,  36th  Georgia  vols.  " 

J.  A.  Reed,  Co.  n,  3l8t  Tennessee  vols.  " 

John  Iluggins,  Co.  L,  10th  Tennessee  cavalry  Feb.  17,  1864. 

D.  C.  Haskins,  3d  Tennessee  vols.  " 

George  A.  Rankin,  Co.  L,  Palmetto  sharp-shooters  " 

J.  T.  McCarty,  Co.  F,  15th  Georgia  vols.  '» 

Wm.  T.  Iglohart,  Co.  E,  30th  bat'n  Va.  s.  shooters  " 

Wm.  U.  Keller,  Adjutant  47th  Alnbama  vols.  " 

J.  M.  Calvert,  Co.  C,  22d  South  Carolina  vols.  Feb.  18, 1864. 

W.  A.  Bailey,  Co.  A.  6th  South  Carolina  cavalry  « 

Jo,seph  E.  Caldwell,  Co.  K,  6th  Florida  battalion  " 

George  F.  Glover,  Co.  A,  43d  Alabama  vols.  « 

Edwin  II.  Douglass,  Iluggins'  battery  horse  artillery  " 

William  Dunlap,  Co.  U,  59th  Tennessee  vols.  " 

^\.  M.  Bailey,  Chaplain  Sth  Touncssoe  cavalry  " 

William  L.  Neyland,  Co.  D,  1st  Tennessee  heavy  artil'y  " 

Joseph  D.  Howard,  48th  Tennessee  vols.  " 

John  T.  Kerr,  Co,  B,  35th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

J.  T.  Marablo,  P.  A.  C.  S.  Feb.  19,  1864. 

J.  T.  Ramsey,  Co.  H,  25th  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

W.  M.  Wells,  Co.  C,  l|(,t  Mississippi  light  artil'y  « 

B.  T.  Mathews,  Co.  A,  14th  bat'n  Miss,  light  artil'y  " 

N.  P.  Robinson,  Co.  I,  60th  Virginia  vols.  " 

Asa  Coger,  Co.  G,  62d  "  " 

J.  T.  Parham,  Co.  Q,  31st  G»orgia  vols.  " 

D.  J.  Owens,  4th  Georgia  cavalry  " 
H.  B.  Treadwoll,  Chaplain  10th  Georgia  battalion  " 
W.M.Wright,  Co.  F,  25th  IVorth  Carolina  vols.  " 
M.  W.  Francis,  Co.  G,  Sth  Arkansas  vols. 
John  A.  Edwards,  Co.  F,  36th  Georgia  vols. 
W.  L.  Lundey,  Co.  A,  10th  Mississippi  vols. 
B.  W.  McDonnold,  Chaplain  50th  Alabama  vola. 
G.  A.  Wallace,,  Co.  F,  59th  Virginia  vols. 

E.  J.  Willis,  Co.  A,  15th  " 
Thomas  J.  Boykin,  Medical  Purveyor  P.  A.  C.  S. 
L.  Grimsley,  Co.  I,  6lst  North  Carolina  vols.  " 
Jacob  Sherrill,  Co.  1, 49th  "  « 
S.  C.  Fontaine,  Co.  H,  24th  Virginia  vols.  « 
William  A.  Pace,  Co.  D,  22d  Virginia  battalion  « 
Charles  T.  Goolrick,  Co.  M,  55th  Virginia  vols.  " 
William  B.  Hall,  Co.  H,  3d  Alabama  vols.  « 
John  U.  Pate,  49th  Georgia  vols.  " 
J.  E.  McDonald,  Co.  I,  26th  Georgia  vols,  " 
0,  II.  Cooke,  49th  Georgia  vols.  " 
Sledge  M.  Robertson,  Co.  Q,  37th  Alabama  vols.                  Feb.  24, 186i. 


Feb.  20, 1864. 


Feb.  10, 1864. 
Fob.  23, 1864. 


120 


First  Lt. 

J.  H.  West, 
Daniel  J.  McLeod, 

-  Co.  D,  30th  Alabama  vols. 
Co.  F,  27  th  Mississippi  vols. 

Feb. 

24, 

1864. 

Captain 

J.  D.  Smith, 

Co.  C,  24th             " 

" 

First  Lt. 

B.  F.  Steele, 

Co.  A,  65th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Captain 

J.  C.  Dobbs, 

Co.  E,  11th              « 

" 

Captain 

A.  H.  Peck, 

Co.  G,  14th  Virginia  cavalry 

Feb. 

24, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  W.  T.  Smith, 

Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Asa.  Surg, 

,  D.  L.  Darden, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Captain 

A.  ir.  Nelson, 

Co,  0,  62d  Virginia  vols. 

Jan. 

15, 

1864. 

« 

Thomas  Harris, 

Co.  E,  Vth 

Feb. 

24, 

1864. 

Soc'nd  Lt 

.  A.  N.  Thompson, 

Capt.  Morrison's  cavalry  company 

Feb. 

25, 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

L.  F.  Bryan, 

Co.  F,  60th  Georgia  vols. 

" 

Captain 

W.  H.  McAfee, 

Co.  I,  38th        " 

(( 

« 

Rich'd  S.  Parks, 

Co.  K,  10th  Virginia  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  John  Altizer, 

Co.  E,  34th  bat.  Virginia  cavalry 

« 

Lt.  Col. 

Pevil  C.  Hayues, 

4th  Tennessee  cavalry 

(( 

First  Lt. 

Jonathan  Barnard, 

Co.  G,  31st  Tennessee  vols. 

" 

." 

A.  J.  Stewart, 

Co.  I,  41st  Alabama  vols. 

(( 

Captain 

Matthew  P.  Taylor, 

A.  C.  S. 

Feb. 

29, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  C.  A.  McConrt, 

Co.  A,  3d  Virginia  bat.  local  defence  Mar. 

-1, 

1864. 

u 

W.  S.  Downer, 

Superintendent  of  Armories 

Mar. 

31, 

1864. 

Surgeon 

P.C.Winn, 
Geo:-ge  F.  Jones, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Feb. 

26, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  W.  P.  Burks, 

Co.  K,  22d  Alabama  vols. 

« 

Captain 

George  Dohson, 

Co.  D,  10th  Mississippi  vols. 

(• 

Rev. 

G.  T.  Henderson, 

Chaplain  23  Tennessee  vols. 

(C 

Captain 

K.  Robinson, 

Co.  H,  38th            « 

it 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  James  D.  Romin, 

Co.  K,  17th  Virginia  cavalry 

" 

" 

R.  S.  Sanxay, 

Co.  A,  46th  Virginia  vols. 

« 

Captain 

J.  W.  Shelton, 

Co.  A,  24th               " 

II 

(( 

Thomas  A.  Janes, 

Co.  H,  62d  Georgia  vols,  (cavalry) 

(< 

« 

D.  C.  Jackson, 

Co.  D,  12th  bat.  Tenn.  cavalry 

•Feb. 

27, 

1864. 

(( 

Geo.  T.  Boatright, 

Co.  A,  60th  Alabama  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

■Jtto.  F.  Millsops, 

Co.  E,  16th  Georgia  bat.  p.  rangers 

" 

Captain 

A.  T.  Bennett, 

Co.  E,  34th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  H.  H.  Harris, 

Co.  C,  9th  Kentucky  vols. 

« 

(C 

Robert  Prater, 

Co.  A,  Conscription  battalion 

Feb. 

29, 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

L.  R.  Dodd, 

Co.  I,  22d  Virginia  vols. 

« 

a 

Q.  P.  Horan, 

Co.  G,  49th  North  Carolina  vols. 

« 

Captain 

J.  M.  C.  Luke, 

Co.  D,  17  th                    " 

« 

First  Lt. 

B.  F.  Person, 

Co.  H,  Ist  North  Carolina  cavalry 

<( 

Captain 

R.  A.  Wood, 

Co.  G,  41st  Georgia  vols. 

« 

" 

G.  A.  Wardlaw, 

A.  Q.  M.  1st  S.  C.  infantry  (reg). 

Mar. 

■    2, 

1864. 

Lieuten't 

F.  P.  Buckner, 

M.  S.  K.  and  p.ay master 

" 

Captain 

W.  S.  Q.  Andrews, 

Co.  F,  10th  N.  C.  vols,  (artillery) 

Mar, 

■   8, 

1864. 

« 

Dan'l  Constantine, 

Co.  B,  4th  Naval  bat.  local  defence 

" 

Ass.  Surg 

.  B.  F.  Rudisil, 

12th  Georgia  battalion 

» 

Captain 

Thomas  J.  Brown, 

Co.  A,  16th  bat.  Tennessee  cavalry 

« 

L" 

Wm.  A.  Graham,  Jr 

.,  Co.  K,  2d  North  Carolina  cavalry 

Sep. 

,30, 

1863, 

Surgeon 

Rob't  E.  Richardson,  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Mar 

•  9, 

1864. 

121 


Major 

Colonel 

Captain 


Major 
Captain 


Major        T.  C.  Dockery, 
First  lit.    Peter  P.  Davis,  Jr., 
Sec'nd  Lt.  David  C.  Outlaw, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Cleveland  King, 
First  Lt.    J.  F.  Barnett, 
"  J.  N.  Swan, 

"  J.  A.  Works. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  M.  Skelton, 
Captain      'Wm.  II.  Crawford, 
"  Wm.  A.  Brown, 

John  U.  Smith, 
B.  Warren  Stono, 
E.  S.  Kobb, 
James  F.  Barton, 
A.  D.  Ellis, 
St.  L.  Dupiero, 
T.  C.  Frost, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Robert  West, 
Captain     J.  M.  Bedford, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  W.  W.  Jamieson, 
First  Lt.    C.  W.  Statham, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  C.  A.  Konsselot, 
Rev.  A.  M.  Marshall, 

Captain      W.  L.  Montgomery, 
Rev.  J.  M.  Meredith, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  John  A.  Lindsay, 
Captain      George  Graham, 
«  W.  M.  Stitt, 

John  Carson, 
D.  Froser, 
J.  A.  Orr, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  F.  J.  Moses.  Jr. 
"  N.  B.  Saine, 

"  J.  M.  Brovrn, 

First  Lt.    R.  A.  Tate. 
Sec'nd  Lt.  James  F.  Clark, 

"  Matthew  Carpenter, 

First  Lt.    Jno.  R.  Hill, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  H.  M.  Ferguson, 
Lieuten't   Iloratio  W.  Gould; 
Ass.  Surg.  M.  M.  Johnson, 
Captain     J.  C.  Stone, 
First  Lt.    Ed.  Kine, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  U.  Staten, 
«  Wm.  F.  Hovis, 

«  CuUen  Curl, 

«  D.  W.  Ogbern, 

Surgeon     B.  E.  Moore, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Theo.  W.  Erwin, 
«  Wm.  O.Smith, 

11 


First  Lt 

Rev. 

Colonel 


22d  Mississippi  vols.                      *  Mar.    9, 18ft*. 

Co.  H,  24th  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  12th  Norlh^Carolina  bat.  " 

Co.  E,  2d  bat.  Ala.  light  artillery  « 

Co.  B,  39th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  47th  .\labamif  vols.  " 

Co.  A,  16th  bat.  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

Co.  C,  11th  Tennessee  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  42d  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  29th  Texas  cavalry  Jan.  29, 1864. 

Cavalry  bat.  Waul's  Te.\as  legion  " 

2d  Texas  partisan  rangers  " 

Co.  K,  4th  regiment  T.  M.  V.  " 

Co.  G,  Dobbins'  reg't  Ark.  cavalry  " 

Co.  F,  9th  Missouri  infantry  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.  « 

Co.  G,  30th  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  K,  29th        «  " 

Co.  C,  48th  Alabama  vols.  Aug.  11, 1863. 

Co.  D,  47  th         «  Fob.    8,  1864. 

Lee  battery  Mar.    1, 1864. 

Co.  D,  Gilmer's  bat.  cavalry  Mar.  10, 1864. 

Chaplain  12th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  45th           «  " 

Chaplain  47th  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  K,52d               "  " 

Co.  F,  37th              "  " 

Co.  I,  37th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  6th               «  « 

Chaplain  2d  Florida  vols.  " 

3l8t  Mississippi  vols.  Mar.  11,  1864. 

Co.  F,  Ist  South  Carolina  infantry  " 

Co.  F,  13th  North  Carolina  vols.  « 

Co.  B,  37  th            "  " 

Co.B,  22d             «  " 

Co.  G.3d               "  « 

Co.  A,  31st  Virginia  vols.  " 

Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S.  Mar.  12, 1864. 

Co.  F,  Ist  Confederate  battalion  " 

Co.  B,  Mobile  City  Troop  " 

53d  Tennessee  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  2d  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  9th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  26th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  47th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  4th  Florida  battalion  •  " 

Co.  1, 17th  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

P.A.  C.  S.  Mar.  14,1864. 

Capt.  Lusk's  Co.  66th  N.  C.  vols.  •  " 

Co.  A,  55th  Virginia  vols.  " 


122 


Sec'nd  Lt 

.  Rob't  T.  Thornton, 

« 

J.  B.  Moore, 

First  Lt. 

James  A.  Hart, 

Captaia 

J.  L.  Brownlow, 

«' 

C.  A.  Dollar, 

First  Lt. 

J.  H.  Marshall,        • 

Secnd  Lt 

.  Geo.  W.  Reynolds, 

Lieuten't 

B.  A.  Calhoun, 

Bec'nd  Lt 

.  W.  D.  Boyd, 

Major 

W.  G.  Pegram, 

First  Lt. 

John  F.  Smith, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  A.  W.  Hamilton, 

First  Lt. 

Geo.  W.  Kearney, 

« 

F.  E.  Scott, 

« 

8.  L.  Isenhat, 

•     " 

Wm.  Horton, 

Captain 

W.  G.  Smith, 

<( 

1).  B.  Griswold, 

First  Lt. 

J.  J.  Fain, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  R.  Roberts, 

" 

-11.  Moss, 

t; 

C.  W.  McCommon, 

Captain 

D.  G.  Adams, 

Abb.  Surg 

.  J.  H.  MuUins, 

Bec'nd  Lt 

.  Ro.  Tate, 

Captain 

W.  J.  Gallaspy, 

« 

W.  W.  Thompson, 

« 

J.  C.  Maples, 

Ass.  Snrg, 

.  T.  M  Logan, 

Surgeon 

John  Wright, 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  R.  D.  Wade, 

Major 

0.  S.  Tenney, 

First  Lt. 

G.  C.  McBee, 

" 

A.C.  Perry, 

Colonel 

Benj.  Beck, 

First  Lt. 

Oliver  J..Youmans, 

" 

T.  M.  Hewitt, 

Captain 

ThoB.  H.  Pitts, 

Colonel 

G.  W.  Abert, 

First  Lt. 

J.  A:Binford,  Jr., 

Captain 

W.  S.  Eskridge, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

,  Thos.  J.  Harrison, 

« 

Wellington  Wishart, 

Captain 

W.  M.  Stitt, 

Lt.  Col. 

W.  L.  Grice, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

Willis  Dorraing, 

Lt.  Col. 

Edw'd  McCrady,  Jr., 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

,  Ro.  E.  Hudgins, 

Captain 

N.  A.  Stuart, 

« 

W.  H.  Carter, 

Co.  F,  38th  Virginia  vols.  Mar.  14, 1864. 

Co.  G,  40th  Missisaippi  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  18th  Alabama  vols,  " 

tic.  II,  32d  Tennessee  vols.  '•• 

Co.  E,  30th  Georgia  vols.  " 

1st  South  Carolina  infantry  " 

Co.  A,  4th  Florida  battalion  " 
Adjutant  Col.  Perrin's  reg.  cavalry  Mar.  15,  1864. 

Co.  K,  12th  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

34th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  10th  Alabama  vols.  "• 

Co.  A,  2d  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Adjutant  2d  Louisiana  vols.  ■' 

Co.  B,  48th  Virginia  vols.  " 
Co.  E,  14th             « 

Co.  I,  17th  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  5th  South  Carolina  cavalry  " 

Griswold's  battery  Jan.  22,  1864. 

Co.  K,  11th  Texas  infantry  " 

Co.  E,  8th             "  " 

Co.  E,  5th  Texas  infantry,  p.  r.  " 

Co.  E,  Hawthorne's  Missouri  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  Cook's  reg.  Texas  artillery  " 

15th  Texas  infantry  *' 

Co.  A,  2d  Louisiana  cavalry  " 

Co.  B,  Baylor's  reg.  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  1, 18th  Texas  infantry  « 

Co.  K,                  «  « 

P.  A.  C.  S.  Mar.    4,  1864. 

15th  Mississippi  vols.  Jan.  15,  1864. 

Co.  B,  18th  Virginia  vols.  Feb.    1,  1864. 

2d  Kentucky  mounted  rifles  Mar.  16,  1864. 

Co.  D,  1st  reg.  Thomas'  legion  " 

Co.  B,  9th  Georgia  vols.  " 

9th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co,  C,  2d  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  8th                «  « 

Co,  1, 3d                   «  « 

14th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Adjutant  15th  Mississippi  vols,  " 

Co.  I,  Ballentine's  regiment  " 

Co.  K,  4l8t  N.  C.  vols,  (cavalry)  Mar.  17,  1864. 

Co.  A,  46th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  1, 37th               «  « 

45th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  A,  6l8t  Georgia  vols.  « 

1st  South  Carolina  vols.  « 

Co.  D,  42d  bat.  Virginia  cavalry  " 

A.  Q.  M,  22d  Virginia  cavalry  " 

Georgia  regiment  cavalry  « 


123 


First  Lt. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 

Captain 
First  Lt. 


Fir8l  Lt. 
Captnin 
First  Lt. 
Odptain 
-Fint  Lt. 
Captain 


A88.  Snrg.  T.  J.  Palmer, 
Captain      J.  A.  Wyly, 

"  Jas.  W.  Cliambers, 

F.  L.  Hannan, 

J.  N.  Uood, 

C.  Fl.  Horton, 
S.  ILarriBon, 
Wm.lL  lUct, 

"  Jiio.  W.  .Toines, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  S.  S.  Montgomery, 
Captain      C.  A.  Manlove, 

"  J.  Drummond, 

First  Lt.    W.  B.  Johnson, 
Lt.  Col.      Daii'l  Livingston, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  K.  F.  Fleming. 
Captain      G.  S.  Swigert, 
John  Pace, 
J.  F.  Wheless, 

D.  S.  McCravey, 
W.  G.  Harris, 
Jobn  Schnell. 
R.  P.  McCanta. 

"  F.  McMurray. 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  W.  House, 
MBiJor        G.  C.  Sandusky, 
First  Lt.     J.  U.  Qibbert. 
Major         T.  II.  Pitncr, 
gfic'nd  Lt.  A.  J.  Weaver, 
First  Lt.    Pete'r  Rnbl, 
Bnrgcon     C.  Peyton, 
Captain      Stephen  V.  Gay, 
Sfec'ud  Lt.  John  Sloan, 
Ab8.  Surg.  A.  B.  Johns, 
Captain      Alex'r  D.  Moore, 
'•  Dan'l  Henderson, 

Surgeon     11.  U.  Ualton, 
"  E.  H.  Bryan. 

Wm.  L.  Lampkiu, 
\Vm.  Dooly, 
Chaa.  M.  Roberds, 
"  Jos.  W.  Dobson, 

•Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  F.  Gibson, 
"  A.  B.  Maxey, 

Sani'l  Hunter, 
W.  M.  Harkreader, 
Lleuten't  Wm.  G.  Smith, 
First  Lt.    3m.  M.  Anderson, 
"  S.  B.  Patterson, 

Jamca  A.  Long, 
S.  T.  Player, 


Captain 
First  Lt. 
Captain 


Captain 
First  Lt. 


Major 
Colonel 


P.  A.  C.  S.  Mar.  17,  1864. 

Co.  B,  16th  Georgia  vols.  Mar.  18,  1864. 

Co.  A,  31st  Tennessee  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  37th  bat.  Virginia  cavalry  *' 

Co.  E,  47lh  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  '2d  South  Carolina  rifles  ** 

Co.  A,  7th  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  6tb  South  Carolina  cavalry  " 

Co.  I,  Cist  North  Carolina  vols,  " 

Co.  D,  .33d  Mississippi  vols.  " 

A.  Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S.  " 

Co.  Q,  l-'jlh  MJSsissippi  vols.  Mar.  19,  1864. 

Co.  A,  13th  "  " 

1st  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  A,  3d  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  "  " 

Co.  A,  10th  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

Co.  C,  Ist  Tennessee  vols,  " 

Co.  L,  36th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  n,  36th        "  " 

Co.  B,  37  th         "  " 

McCants'  battery  Mar.  21,  1864. 

Co.  B,  '23d  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  I,  2il  Tennesaoo  vols.  " 

3d  Confederate  cavalry  " 

Co.  D,  Wth  Georgia  vols.  "    • 

39th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  SOth  Georgia  vols.  " 

20th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

P  A.  C.  S.  • 

A.  Q.  M.  6l8t  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  C,  61st  " 

45th  North  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  E,  49tli  North  Carolina  vols, 

Co.  B,  10th  bat.  Georgia  vols. 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

4l8t  Georgia  vols. 

A.  Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  C,  7  th  South  Carolina  cavalry  " 

Co.  K,  26tli  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  65fh  "  " 

Co.  A,  Ist  bat.  cav'ry,  local  defence  " 

Co.  D,  Navy  battalion  " 

A.  Q.  M.  '2d  bat.  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  I,  7th  Tennessee  vols.  " 

Adjutant  '22d  AlaBania  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  39th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  ISth  Virginia  cavalry  Mar.  24,  1864. 

13th  G-Jorgia  vols.  " 

49lh  "  " 


Mar.  22, 1864. 


Mar.  30, 1864. 
Mar.  .'S,  1864. 
Mar. '23,  1364. 


124 


See'nd  Lt.  Dau'l  N.  Easley," 

" 

Campbell  Pigman, 

Captain 

Frank  Ogden, 

See'nd  Lt 

.  J.  Jones, 

Bev. 

J.  II.  Massey, 

Captain 

P.  L.  Bnrwell, 

See'nd  Lt. 

L.  C.  Bell, 

Surgeon 

Geo.  Lumpkin, 

Captain 

J  no.  II.  Mangham, 

Surgeon 

R.  S.  F.  Peete, 

See'nd  Lt 

.  M.  H  Cobb, 

Rev. 

Chas.  H.  Bogg, 

First  Lt. 

W.  Grandille  Gray, 

See'nd  Lt.  Reuben  Thorn, 

Ass.  Surg 

.  J.  C.  Branch, 

gin-geon 

Thos.  F.  Gullett, 

Captain 

Rufus  B.  Lankford, 

Ass.  Surg, 

..Bdw'd  Latham, 

Rev. 

P.  6.  Jamison, 

See'nd  Lt 

.  S.  G.  Neel, 

First  Lt. 

W.  S.  Newson, 

Colonel 

A,  H.  Helvenston, 

Secnd  Lt 

.  A.  J.  Killebrew, 

« 

N.  M.  Crenshaw, 

" 

W.  J.  Hughes, 

Colonel 

R.  T.  W.  Duke, 

Captain 

Jas.  B.  Avault, 

Chaplain 

Jas.  D.  Thomas, 

Captain 

Newsom  Taunton, 

See'nd  Lt 

.  J.  L.  Hillyer, 

Captain 

Jno.  Cavanaugh, 

Major 

R.  W.  Wharton, 

See'nd  Lt 

.  Rufus  M".  Johnson, 

" 

Wesley  Hall. 

Major 

Johu  A.  Henley, 

" 

John  Lott  Phillips, 

Seo'nd  Lt, 

.  Julius  A.  Greene, 

« 

L.  Brown, 

Lt.  Col. 

B.  R.  Liukons, 

Rev. 

Martin  Bibb, 

First  Lt. 

Ashwill  Simmons, 

See'nd  Lt.  Ransom  Dudley, 

First  Lt. 

Wra.  T.  Gary, 

" 

A.  F.  Neal, 

Captain 

J.  W.  Strange, 

Surgeon 

S.  S.  Neill, 

See'nd  Lt 

.  Wilkins  Bruce, 

First  Lt. 

J.  P.  Poynter, 

" 

T.  H.  Tidmarsh, 

Captain 

W.  F.  Parks, 

Co.  C.  9th  Georgia  vols.  Mar.  24, 1864. 

Co.  A,  loth  Ky.  mounted  riflemen  " 

Co.  H,  41st  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  62d  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Chaplain  62d  North  Carolina  vols.  '• 

Co.  B,  50lh  North  Carolina  vols.  •-' 

Co.  E,  Arsenal  bat.,  local  defence  " 
P.  A.  C.  S.                                              Mar.  25,  1864. 

A.  C.  S.  P.  A.  C.  S.  •■ 

12th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  22d  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Chajilaia  9th  Virginia  cavalry  '■     • 

Co.  F,  21st  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  11th  Alabama  vols.  " 
P.  A.  C.  S.                                              Mar.  26, 1804. 

Co.  0,  3d  Confederate  cavalry  " 

10th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Chaplain  11th  Tennessee  vols,  " 

Co.  A,  47  th  ■■'  "         • 

Sengitak's  company,  artillery  " 

16th  Alabama  vols.  " 
Co.  A,  Russell's  regiment 
Co.  G,  5th  Mississippi  cavalry 
Co.  C,  18th  bat.  Mississippi  p.  rang. 
46th  Virginia  vols. 
Co.  E,  20th  Mississippi  vols. 
19th  bat.  Virginia  heavy  artillery 
Co.  K,  57th  Alabama  vols. 
Co.  A,  5th  Mississippi  cavalry 
Co.  e,'*8th  bat.  La  heavy  artillery 
1st  bat.  N.  Carolina  sharp-shooters 
Co.  B,  Cobb  Guards 
Co.  H,  22d  Virginia  cavalry 
3d  battalion  local  defence 
3d  Florida  vols. 

Co.  F,  37  th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Oo.  F,  39th        "  " 

36th  Virginia  vols.  '• 

Chaplain. 60th  Virginia  vols.  " 
Co.  C,  61st             '>                                     ,    « 

Co.  E,  58th        ■   "  " 

Co.  D,  13th  Virginia  cavalry  '  •' 

Co.  I,  13th  North  Carolina  vols.  ■' 

Co.  D,  2d  North  Carolina  cavalry  •■ 
*.  A.  C.  S.                                              Mar.  31,  1864. 

Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S.  '• 

Co.  E,  25th  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Artillery  P.  A.  C.  S.  '• 

Co.  G,  24th  Georgia  vols,  « 


Mar.  28,  1864. 


Jan.  21,  1864. 
Mar.  11,  1864. 
Mar.  3, 1864. 
Mar.  29,  1864. 


Mar,  30, 1864. 


125 


Captain 
Major 


Captain 
First  Lt 
Polonel 


CaptAin      Jno.  A.  McGregor, 
Major        Jno.  J.  Moore, 
Captain     James  B.  Martin, 
Bec'nd  Lt.  S.  V.  Davenport, 

"  W.  a.  Grace, 

Captain     Rob't  S.  Radcliffe, 
First  Lt.    John  S.  Singleton, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Theodore  F.  Bailey, 
Firat  Lt.    J.  G.  Dover, 

"  Jefferson  W.  Taylor, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  H.  D.  Shell, 
"  A.  L.  Winston, 

J.  H.  McCreay, 
Wm.  Piuidh, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  F.  C.  Jones, 
''  James  M.  Davis, 

J.  H.  Parker, 
II.  0.  Freeman, 
G.  W.  Stubbs, 
John  B.  Sale, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  James  F.  Stapleton, 
First  Lt.    J.  J.  Parrish, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  A.  J.  Hays, 
First  Lt.    P.  C.  Luttreil, 
Lieuten't   John  J.  Na«h, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  F.  Brice, 

"  G.  W.  Orear, 

First  Lt.    John  M.  Henderson, 
Lt.  Col.      John  P.  West, 
Surgeon     John  R.  Raine, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  Peter  C.  Frederick, 
Rev.  F.  Elwell, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  G.  W.  Lancaster, 
"  W.  0.  Wilmeth, 

T.  B.  Collier, 
Charles  D.  Myers, 
N.  M.  Collier, 
T.  C.  Jennings, 
E.  L.  Cunningham, 
See'nd  Lt.  H.  L.  Greer, 
R.  H.  Mills, 
"  Hugh  A.  Grey, 

"  W.  T.  Herndon, 

"  Thos.  G.  Weslfall, 

S.  A.  Thornton, 
L.  £.  Morolaud, 
J.  J.  McMahon, 
•Isaac  J.  Winston, 
"  George  Millard, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  W.  J.  Eaton, 
11* 


Captain 

First  Lt. 
Rev. 
Fii-st  Lt. 


Captain 

Colonel 
First  Lt.' 


Co.  15, 17th  Georgia  toIs.  Mar.  SI,  1864. 

52d                    «  " 

Co.  B,  56th        «  " 

Co.  F,  37th        «  " 

Co.  C,  41st  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Enrolling  officer,  etc.  Ap'l    li  1864. 

Co.  Q,  62d  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  22d            «  " 

Co.  C,  17th  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  10th  Georgia  vols.       •  " 

Co.  A,  3d  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  7th  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

Co.  H,  2d  Alabama  cavalry  " 

2d  Tennessee  cavalry  " 

Co.  L,  Wood's  regiment  cavalry  " 

Co.  I,           "                  "  " 

Co.  G,  5th  Mississippi  cavalry  " 

Co.  B,  15th  Mississippi  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  46th            "  " 
Cav.  P.  A.  C.  S.  military  court,  etc.  Apl    2, 1864. 

Co.  F,  46th  Georgia  vols.  '' 

Co.  K,  29th           "  '* 

Co.  F,  56th            "  "     ■ 

Co.  D,  4l8t  Mississippi  vols.  ". 

Co.  H,  1st  Kentucky  cavalry  " 
King's  battery 
Barret's  Missouri  battery 
Co.  B,  3StU  Alabama  vols. 
2d  Alabama  cavalry 
45th  North  Carolina  vols. 
Co.  G,  37  th  Alabama  vols. 

Chaplain  P.  A.  C.  S.  Feb.  20,  1864. 

Co.  B,  6th  Texae  cavalry  Feb.  21, 1864. 

Co.  D,            "            "  Mar.    1,  1864. 

Co.  K,            "            «  Feb.  20,  1864. 

A.  A.  G.  P.  A.  C.  S.  Ap'l    2,1864. 

Co.  A,  44th  Virginia  battalion  Ap'l    4,  1864. 

Chaplain  Uth  Virginia  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  65  th  North  Carolina  vols,  " 

Co.  B,  55th          «  " 

Co.  K,  16th          '<  " 

Co.  1, 48th           "  " 

Co.  B,  9th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  6, 14th  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  E,  13th        "  " 

Co.  C,  55th        "             .  " 
63d  Virginia  vols. 
Adjutant  6th  Arkansas  vols. 

Adjutant  22d  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co  B,  4th  Mississippi  cavalry     ■  " 


126 


Captain 

C.  Q.  Samuel, 

First  Lt. 

J.  W.  Granger, 

Captain 

G.  H.  Cleveland, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

James  B.  GrifiBn, 

" 

J.  M.  D.  King, 

Captain 

J.  M.  C.  Holamon, 

" 

James  H.  Young, 

First  Lt. 

J.  W.  Whitecotton, 

« 

G.  B.  Speuce, 

Captain 

J.  McCleveland, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

John  E.  McCord, 

Captain 

J.  T.  Brady, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  A.  D.  Holley, 

" 

R.  J.  Cunningham, 

Captain 

C.  D.  McCutchen, 

" 

J.  J.  Harper, 

First  Lt. 

J.  R.  Stewart, 

Captain 

James  Marshall, 

" 

J.  G.  Mackey, 

Brig.  Gen, 

.  R.  H.  Chilton, 

As8.  Surg 

.  Rob't  E.  Campbell, 

" 

P.  S.  Dance, 

Surgeon 

E.H.Bryan, 

Captain 

R.  G.  Atkins, 

First  Lt. 

W.  H.  H.  Peters, 

" 

Jno.  E.  Spotswood, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  R.  L.  Daly, 

" 

M.  N.  Ford, 

" 

Uriah  Owen, 

Captain 

S.  W.  Blance, 

First  Lt. 

A.  S.  Fry, 

Captain 

E.  L.  Connally, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  A.  J.  Whitlow, 

« 

Will.  N.  Holt, 

" 

L.  L.  Lanier, 

" 

George  P.  Lively, 

Captain 

D.  K.  O'Brien, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

..  W.  R.  Singletary, 

" 

E.  B.  Powers, 

Ass.  Surg 

.  Thomas  J.  McKie, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  J.  Langdon, 

Captain 

Hugh  McMillon, 

" 

Ben.  Morgan, 

First  Lt. 

W.  L.  Farley, 

Captain 

S.  T.  Feagin, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  W.  B.  Mallory, 

" 

JiiD.  D.  S.  Foote, 

First  Lt. 

Wm.  Lawhorue, 

Captain 

S.  H.  Brickell, 

First  Lt. 

A.  M.  IJirkland, 

Co.  D,  30th  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  E,  37  th        " 

Co.  G,  38th        " 

Co.  A,  2d  Georgia  battalion 

Co.  H,  39th  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  D,  64th        « 

Young's  company 

Guard  company 

Co.  K,  28th  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  K,  32d  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  H,  42d       " 

Co.  E,  42d        « 

Co.'1, 40th       " 

Co.  C,  30th       " 

Co.  F,  4th  Georgia  cavalry 

Co.  B,  47th  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  C,  4th  Georgia  cavalry 

Co.  E,  12th  Virginia  cavalry 

Co.  A,  Miles'  Louisiana  legion 

P.  A.  C.  S. 


41st  Georgia  vols. 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  K,  7th  C.  S.  cavalry 

Co.  A,  55th  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  A.  53d  Tennessee  vols. 

Co.  Q,  9th  bat.  Georgia  artillery 

Co.  B,  "  " 

Co.  D,  20th  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  D,  34th  bat.  Virginia  cavalry 

Co.  A,  13tli  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  E,  Jeff.  Davis'  legion 

Co.  H,  55th  North  (Jarolina  vols. 

F  troop,  5th  Georgia  cavalry 

Co.  H,  26th  Virginia  vols. 

Co.  C,  23d  South  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  I.  26th  " 

Co.  Q,  " 

10th  " 

Co.  A,  13th  Tennessee  vols. 

Co.  H,  56th  Georgia  vols. 

A.  Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  F,  16th  Virginia  vols. 

A.  Q.  M.  15th  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  G,  69th  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  A,  35th        " 

Co.  B,  58th  Virginia  vols.  . 

Co.  G,  12th   North  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  F^  13th 


Dec.    1,  1862. 
Ap'l    5,1864. 


Mar.    6,  1864. 
Ap'l    6,1864. 


Ap'l    1,1864. 
Ap'l    7,  1864. 


Ap'l    9,  1864. 


Ap'l  11,  1864. 


Ap'l  12,  1864 


127 


Colonel 
First  Lt. 


Sec'nd  Lt, 
Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt, 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Major 
Chaplain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Surgeon 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 


Chaplain 
Sec'nd  Lt, 
Ass.  Surg. 
ReT. 
First  Lt. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Captain 
Chaplain 
Colonel 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 

Ueatcn't 

Captain 
First  Lt. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt 
Fii-st  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt, 
First  Lt. 
Bec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 


J.  Q.  A.  NadeDbou8cb,2d  Virginia  vols. 

R.  Perrin,  Fowler's  battery 

J.  C.  DeGraffenroid,    Co.  K,  10th  Confederate  cavalry 

Wm.  S.  Simmons,        Co.  F,  6(h  Florida  vols. 

P.  A.  Cribbs,  Co.  K,  20th  Alabama  vols. 

W.  W.  Jolinson.  Co.  G,  23d  " 

Nicholas  Airheart,      Co.  K,  30th  " 

W.  K.  O.  Keen,  Co.  D,  'J5th  " 

^V.  R.  McGowan,         Co.  A,  40th  " 

A.  H.  Reid,  Co.  F,  66th  Georgia  vols, 

M.  W.  Kennedy,  Co.  E,  5th        " 

Lewis  L.  nammoud,  Co.  C,  4l8t       ■' 

W.  C.  Staples,  '  24th  Mississippi  vols. 


Ap'l  12, 1864. 
Ap'l  13, 1864. 


Wm.  N.  Oslin, 
Martin  Forsyth, 
P.  G.  Snowden, 
W.  E.  Williams, 
L.  T.  Mallery, 
Wm.  Pool, 
F.  C.  Parsons, 
J.  II.  Andrews, 
W.  G.  Johnson, 
J.  A.  Bounds, 
EJ.  Q.  Banks, 

A.  W.  Randolph, 
Marion  Franklin, 
W.  F.  Luther, 
Jno.  Stol.sworth, 
Jas.  M.  Bird, 
John  Isom, 

W.  F.  Weems, 
J.  J.  Morrison, 

B.  F.  llammett, 
T.  J.  Mooro, 

L.  Trousdale, 
J.  T  Smith, 
J.  Sillers, 
Edward  Warbury, 
F.  T.  Miles, 
Pat.  VV.  Brufley, 
Elias  Edmonds, 
J.  P.  Jones, 
R.  B.  Williams, 
K.  S.  Smith, 
James  P.  Pearce, 
J.  R.  Johnson, 
II.  M.  Cannon, 
S.  T.  Howard, 
Bo.  II.  Gamble, 
J.  J.  Thorn, 


4.3d  Georgia  vols. 
Co.  K,  Leo's  rangers 
P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  F,  Naval  battalion 
Adjutant  60d  Georgia  vols. 
Co.  E,  23d  " 

Co.  F,  22d  South  Carolina  vols. 
Co.  A,  14th  " 

11th  Alabama  vols. 
Co.  F,  19fh  Mississippi  vols. 
1st  Mississippi  light  artillery 
Chaplain  P.  A.  C.  S.** 
Co.  A,  Arsenal  battalion 
Co.  E,  4th  Tennessee  cavalry 
Co.  I,  59th        " 
Co.  G,  5th  South  Carolina  vols. 
Co.  B,  9th  bat.  Georgia  artillery 
Ist  Georgia  cavalry 
u  u 

Co.  D,  33d  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  II,  3d  Florida  vols. 

A.  A.  G.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

N.  and  M.  corps 

Moody's  battery  Louisiana  vols. 

Adjutant  7tb  Missouri  infantry 

Co.  A,  27th  South  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  I,  3l8t  Virginia  vols. 

Co.  n,  40th 

Co.  K,  32d  and  68th  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  C,  47th  Georgia  vols. 

Co,  D.  24th  South  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  K,  5th  Alabama  cavalry 

Co.  B,  4th  Arkansas  battalion 

Co.  I,  21st  South  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  K,  Hood's  cavalry  battalion 

Florida  light  artillery 

Co.  D,  12th  Alabama  vols. 


Ap'l  1,  1864. 
Mar.  23, 1864. 
Ap'l  14,  1864. 


Ap'l  15,  1864. 


Mar.  1,  1864. 
Ap'l  16, 1864. 
Ap'l  18,  1864. 

Ap'l  18,  1864. 


Ap'l  19,  1864. 
Ap'l  20,  1864. 


128 


Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  P.  Davis, 
"  J.  J.  Hyde, 

"  N.  H.  Moore, 

Major         C.  H.  Lee, 
Rev.  Joseph  Cross, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  William  L.  Roberts, 

"  Johu  M.  Thomas, 

Surgeon     T.  W.  Salmond, 
Captain      Geo.  A.  Mclntyre, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  H.  Gibba, 
"  L.  T.  Wilkins, 

"  Thomas  McClosky, 

Captain      E.  N.  Pitusen, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  H.  II.  Alexander, 
"  Luke  A.  Lane, 

B.  W.  York, 

C.  G.  Filligourt 
A.  B.  Redding, 
0.  M.  Russom, 
Bennett  Smedes, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  R.  Murchison, 
First  Lt.    J.  M.  Wilder, 
"  Wm.  S.  Reynolds, 

"  A.  Smith, 

Thomas  C.  Weir,  ^ 
R.  W.  Billup, 
"  Andrew  J.  Rowe, 

"  Robt.  A.  Matthews, 

"  J.  N.  Anderson, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  D.  Ballenger, 
"  Linsey  Lowder, 

S.  F.  Butts, 

D.  P.  Graham, 
J.  P.  Wise, 
A.  J.  Witherspoon, 
M.  T.  Porter, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  N.  B.  Meglathery, 

First  Lt.    James  Uogan, 

Major         John  Blair  Hoge, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  J.  Trimble, 
"  J.  E.  Martin, 

"  A.C.Marchant, 

First  Lt.    J.  A.  Wright, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  John  Ames, 
"  James  Conroy, 

"  John  Clark, 

"  Wm.  Y.  Watson, 

First  Lt.    James  M.  Truitt, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  F.  Y.  Old, 
«  J.  C.  Ginn, 


Captain 
First  Lt. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 
Rev. 


Rev. 
First  Lt 


Rev. 
Major 
Captain 
Rev. 
Lt.  Col. 


Co.  B,  Slat  Alabama  vols.  ' 
Co.  I,  27th  Mississippi  vols. 
Co.  E,  2d  Tennessee  cavalry 
A.  A.  G.  P.  A.  C.  S. 
Chaplain  P.  A.  C.  S. 
Co.  B,  60th  Alabama  vols. 
Co.  C,  22d  South  Carolina  vols. 
2d  " 

Co.  E,  1st  " 

Co.  D,  10th  Georgia  vols. 
Co.  K,  50th  North  Carolina  vols. 
Co.  H,  10th  Tennessee  vols. 
A.  C.  S.  P.  A.  C.  S. 
Drill-master  P.  A,  C.  S. 


Ap'l  20, 1864. 


May  31,  1864. 
Ap'l  21, 1864. 


Co.  B, 

,  9th  battalion  Georgia  artil'j 

•  Ap;i 

22, 

1864. 

Co.  H, 

48th  Georgia  vols. 

A.Q. 

M.  31st          '• 

Co.  C, 

22d 

Chapl 

ain  5th  North  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  I, 

Ist  South  Carolina  vols. 

Co.  E, 

Palmetto  sharp-shooters 

Co.  F, 

2d  Mississippi  cavalry 

Co.  I, 

4th                " 

Chapl 

ain  37th  Mississippi  vols. 

Co.  L, 

1st  Texas  legion  cavalry 

Co.  F, 

7th  Georgia  vols. 

M'ch  25, 

,  1864. 

■  Co.  E, 

Department  battalion 

Ap'l 

23, 

1864. 

Co.  B, 

,  65th  North  Carolina  vols. 

" 

Co.  K 

,31st 

« 

Co.  D, 

28th              « 

(( 

Chapl 

ain  42d  Virginia  vols. 

« 

51at 

" 

« 

Co.  B, 

59th  Alabama  vols. 

" 

Chaplain  21st         " 

(( 

20th 

" 

" 

Co.  I, 

50th               " 

" 

Co.  F, 

50th              " 

Ap'l 

23, 

1864. 

Q.  M. 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

Co.D, 

8th  Georgia  battalion 

Ap'l 

25, 

1864. 

Co.  G, 

52d  Georgia  vols. 

" 

Co.  K. 

46th             " 

» 

Co.  B, 

66th             « 

« 

Co.  A, 

10th  Tennessee  vols. 

" 

Co.  K, 

,  10th            " 

" 

Co.D, 

10th             « 

" 

Co.  A, 

10th  Kentucky  cavalry 

" 

Ferrell's  battery 

" 

Co.  I, 

15th  Virginia  cavalry 

Ap'l 

26, 

1864. 

Co.  B, 

31st  Georgia  regiment 

" 

129 


First  U. 

W.  D.  Haynos, 

Co.  G,  31st  Georgia  regiment     • 

Ap'l 

26, 

1864. 

Captain 

R.  S.  Y.  Lang. 
A.  W.  Rowe, 

Co.  D,  Phillips'  legion 

Co.  E,  Otb  Tennessee  cavalry 

': 

Rov. 

IlozekiaU  West. 

Chaplain  Thomas'  legion  N.  C.  vols. 

" 

Captain 

L.  C.  Leftwich, 

Artillery  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Ap'l 

27, 

1864. 

Soc'nd  Lt. 

Oliver  B.  Steele, 

Co.  B,  4lh  Kentucky  vols. 

<i 

Captain 

n.  C.  Stone, 

Co.  K,  18th  Alabama  vols. 

" 

First  Lt.- 

A.  N.  Pirtle, 

Co.  n  4th  .\rkansas  vols.  • 

« 

Ass.  Surg. 

n.  G.  Jack.son, 

Orr's  Sonth  Carolina  riHes 

« 

Colonel 

CoIIett  Lovontliorpe 

,  11th  North  Carolina  vols. 

« 

Soc'nd  Lt. 

K.  B.  Massie, 

Co.  H.  2.ith  Virginia  vols. 

<( 

Surgeon 

D.  S.  Watson, 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

"  ■ 

W.  B.  WilliainBon, 

Ballcntine's  cav.alry  regiment 

Ap'l 

1, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  U. 

W.  P   Gardner, 

Co.  H.  17th  Virginia  vols. 

Ap'l 

30, 

1864. 

First  Lt. 

J.  G.  Stephens, 

Co.  E,  4th  Georgia  vols. 

May 

1, 

1864. 

Rev. 

James  L.  Neose, 

Chapl'n  2oth  Texas  cavalry,  dism'd 

Ap'l 

28, 

1864. 

Soc'nd  Lt. 

W.  L.  Richardson, 

Co.  A,  38th  Teun(3^see  vols. 

" 

Lt.  Col. 

Alex.  11.  Wallace, 

36th  Georgia  vols. 

" 

Captain 

James  M.  Smith, 

Co.  B,  57th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

First  Lt. 

Wni.  O'Brien, 

Co.  B,  3d                 " 

" 

Rev. 

T.  J.  McVeigh, 

Chaplain  P.  A.  C.  S. 

« 

Ass.  Surg. 

S.  M.  Dold, 

P.  A.C.  S. 

<t 

First  Lt. 

W.  E.  Bew, 

Co.  G,  15th  Mississippi  vols. 

Ap'l 

29, 

1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

C  C.  Gordon. 

Co.  D,  1st  Florida  cavalry 

" 

Lt.  Col. 

J.  F.  B.  Jackson; 

■  89th  Georgia  vols. 

" 

Captain 

Uufiis  M.  Deshazo, 

Co.  G,  20th  Alabama  vols. 

- 

« 

• 

llov. 

F.  M.  Daniel,- 

Chaplain  33d  Alabama  vols. 

« 

Captain 

A.  Kilpatrick, 

Co.  E,  32d               " 

X 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  A.  J.  Mount, 

Co.  B,  5th  Alabama  battalion 

a 

Surgeon 

Thomas  D.  Isoni, 

P.A.  C-S. 

" 

Rev, 

Josiah  Baker, 

Chaplain  40th  Alabam'a  vols. 

Apl 

1, 

,1864. 

First  Lt. 

George  W.  Harvey, 
M.  L.  Smith, 

Co.  E,  42d  Tennessee  vols. 
Co.  B,  1st  Tennessee  artillery 

Ap'l 

30, 

1864. 

Soc'nd  Lt. 

.  L.  F.  Battle, 

Drill-master 

i< 

Captain 

H.  J.  Keister, 

Co.  L.  4th  Virginia  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  G.  C.  Pl-iyer. 

Co.  A,  30th  Alabama  vols. 

Ap'l 

30, 

,1864. 

Surgeon 

R.  W.  Lunday 

P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

Licutou't 

Frank  P.  Stubbs, 

Madison  light  art'y,  Louisiana  vols 

<i 

Rev. 

C.  F.  Crooks, 

Ch.aplain  14th  Virginia  cav.alry 

May 

2; 

,1864. 

Captain 

Otho  Alexander, 

Co.  K,  20th 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  E.  N.  Garrett, 

Co.  li  16th  Sonth  Carolina  vols. 

" 

Ass.  Surg. 

.  C.  H.  Gorman. 

30th  Alabama  vols. 

" 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  John  M.  Lombard, 

Co.  C,  5th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Lt.  Col. 

W.  A.  Daniel. 

46th  Georgia  vols. 

« 

Surgeon 

John  K.  Ruffln, 

49th  North  Carolina  vols. 

11 

First  Lt. 

W.  N.  Mu7,zall. 

Co.  K,  10th  Texas  cavalry,  dism'd 

" 

Major 

George  W.  Triplett, 

Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

" 

First  Lt. 

T.  M.  Ladd, 

S.  A.  Matthews, 

Co.  K,  Slst  Tennessee  vols. 
Drill-master  P.  A.  C.  S. 

May 

3 

,1864. 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  T.  R.  Emory, 

Enrolling  officer,  etc. 

" 

130 


Co.  F,  43d  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  B.  30tli  bat.  Virginia  s.  siiootoi'S 

Co.  a,  GOth  Georgia  vols. 

P.  A.  0.  S. 

Chaplain  44th  Mississippi  vols. 

Co.  D,  29th  Tennessee  vols. 

Co.  D,  9th  bat.  Tennessee  cavalry 

Co.  K,  25tli  Tennessee  vols. 

Co.  V,  15th  Mississippi  vols. 
James  T.  Delworth,    Co.  C,  4.3d  " 

S.  M.  Browne,  Co.  C,  10th  Virginia  vols. 

John  Peck,  Co.  C,  64th  North  Carolina  vols. 


Sec'nd  Lt.  L.  D.  Ramey, 
"  Charles  R.  Boyd, 

"  W.  n.  Davies, 

Burgeon     A.  R.  Mott, 
Kev.  William  C.  Maloy, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  T.  M.  Burkett, 
"  M.  D.  Foster, 

"  William  Emory, 

"  John  B.  Adams, 


First  Lt. 
Captain 


May  3,  1864 


May     4,  1804. 


Sec'nd  Lt.  William  G.  Barrett,    Drill-inaster  P.  A.  G.  S. 


Major  Garnett  Andrews, 

Ass.  Surg.  John  W.  Bowdoin, 

Lt.  Col.  John  W.  Corser, 

Captain  J.  A.  Ashford, 

"  Rufiis  K.  Arnold, 

"  J.  M.  Odellt  ^ 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Thomas  Ramsey, 

"  George  P.  Bass, 

"  E.  Wasson, 

«  D.  M.  Waddell, 

Colonel  T.  C.  Bass, 

Captain  John  T.  Harman, 

Colonel  C.  L.  Dawson, 

First  Lt.  J.  A.  Anderson, 

Surgeon  William  Madison, 

First  Lt.  R.  J.  Patton, 

"  P.  E.  Bonford, 


A.  A.  G.  P.  A.  C.  S. 

30th  Alabama  vols. 

Newton's  Arkansas  cavalry 

Co.  B,  12th  bat.  Arkansas  s.  shoot's 

Co.  A,  Grimstead's  regiment 

Co.  I,  4th  Te-xas  cavalry 

Co.  E,  Chisura's  reg't Texas  cavalry 

Halderman's  battery 

Co.  p,  2Sth  Louisiana  vols. 

Co.  E,  16tli  Texas  (lism'd  cavalry 

20th  " 

Co.  C,  29th  " 

Dawson's  reg't  Arkansas  vols. 

Co.  B,  " 

Baylor's  reg't  Texas  cavalry 

Graham's  rangers 

A.  D.  C. 


Feb.  19,  1864. 


M'ch    1,  1864. 


Soc'nd  Lt.  James  N.  Thompson,  Co.  I,  9th  Missouri  vols. 


Captain     J.  P.  Layne, 
Sec'nd  Lt.  A.  Siemering, 
First  Lt.    A.  H.  Thompson, 

"  L.  P.  Briant,' 

Sec'nd  Lt.  W.  B.  Martin, 
Major        James  Q.  Morton, 
Captain      F.  L.  Scott, 

"  V.  Thibodeaux, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  Joseph  II.  Price, 
"  F.  Schrciner, 

.  A.  Brand, 
D.  S.  Arnold, 
N.  J.  Scott, 


M'ch  10, 1864. 


M'ch  11, 1864. 


Ass.  Siirf 
Captain 
First  Lt. 
Captain 
First  Lt. 


Co.  A,  21st  Texas  vols. 

Co.  E,  1st  " 

Co.  H,  1.5th  Texas  vols. 

Yellow  Jacket  battalion 

Co.  I,  31st  Texas  dism'd.  cavalry 

9th  Missouri  vols. 

Co.  D,  Stevens'  Texas  dism'd  cav'ry  " 

Co.  A,  Yellow  Jacliot  battalion  *' 

Co.  K,  18th  Texas  dism'd  cavalry  " 

Co.  H,  3d  Texas  vols.  " 

33d  Texas  caviilry  " 

Co.  G,  Capers"  regiment  cavalry         Ap'l    1,  1864 

Co.  F,  13th  Louisiana  battalion  " 


Richard  C.  Newport,  1st  Missouri  vols. 


J.  C.  Roberts, 
"  D.  H.  Myers, 

Sec'nd  Lt.  S.  Harrison, 
First  Lt.    J.  W.  Lockhart, 
Ass.  Surg.  J.  W.  Knight, 


Co.  I,  20th  Texas  dism'd  cavalry 
Co.  K,  Terrell's  regiment 
Co.  A,  « 

Co.  B,  20th  Texas  vols, 
19th  Texas  cavalry 


Apl     6,  1864 
Ap'l    6, 1864. 


131 


Sec'nd  Lt.  T.  Eggeling, 

" 

A.  11.  Harris, 

" 

M.  Andrews, 

i< 

0.  Tentcnot, 

First  Lt. 

T.  H.  Handy, 

Ass.  Siirg 

;.  J.  F.  Crawford, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

i.  J.  C.  Joplin, 

First  Lt. 

W.  P.  Uix, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

..  J.  J.  Atkins, 

Captain 

A.  n.  lianisay, 

Mivjor 

Albert  B.  Uoss. 

A.  W.  King, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

;.  A.  C.  Marchnnt, 

" 

J.R.  King, 

" 

A.J.  Shirley. 

« 

0.  P.  M.  Dover, 

« 

James  Cliadwick, 

First  Lt. 

Fred.  II.  Perkins, 

Kev. 

W.  R.  McNeer, 

Lt.  Col. 

M.  Lewis, 

Rev. 

J.  C.  Taylor.  Jr., 

Lt.  Col. 

John  S.  Green, 

Lieiiten"t 

Gcorgo-W.  Davia, 

Captain 

R.  C.  Rogan, 

" 

T.  M.  Jones, 

-Sec'nd  Lt 

.  M.  V.  Timmons, 

" 

A.  C.  Sorrell, 

Captain 

John  II.  Ilowaid, 

First  Lt. 

E.  M.  Necly, 

Captain 

W.  W.  Thompson, 

First  Lt. 

D.  G.  Marrow, 

Rev. 

John  P.  Campbell, 

Major 

L.  J.  Gnilmartin, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

,  A.  J.  Butler, 

" 

Robert  Weatherly. 

u 

S.  II.  Mason, 

" 

L.  B.  Edwards, 

« 

C.  W.  Sanders, 

" 

R.  A.  Wilson, 

« 

J.  0.  Lovelace,        < 

Captain 

J.  M.  Null, 

First  Lt. 

A.  W.  Hardin, 

" 

J.  W.  Flood, 

Captain 

T.  M.  Harris, 

Rev. 

John  L.  Pottigrew, 

Captain 

B.  T.  Boll, 

First  Lt. 

U.  W.  Stevens, 

" 

Jere  Coxo, 

Lt.  Col. 

C.  McLaurin, 

CapUin 

J.  F.  White, 

6, 1864. 
6,  1S64. 


Ap'I    5,1804. 
May    7,1864. 


May    9,  1864. 


Co.  B,  7th  Texas  cavalry  Ap'I  6,  1864. 

Co  E,  Harrison's  regiment  " 

Ivey's  company  cavalry  " 

Co.  K,  28tb  LouiaianiU'Ols.  « 

Crescent  artillery  " 
8th  Mississippi  vols.                             May 
Co.  0,  3d  bat.  local  defence  troops      May 

Co.  K,  23d  Mississippi  vols. 

Co.  E,  Orr's  South  Carolina  rifles 

20th  Georgia  vols. 

Master  Armorer 

Co.  K,  4Cth  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  D, 

Co.  G,  8th  Georgia  battalion 

Co.  F,  •« 

Co.  F,  " 

1st  Louisiana  infantry 

Chaplain  4th  Virginia  vols. 

9th  Virginia  cavalry  " 

Chaplain  10th  Virginia  cavalry  " 

6th  "  « 

6th  '•  " 

Co.  D,  10th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  51st  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  15th  South  Carolina  cavalry  " 

1st  Georgia  regulars  " 

Co.  C,  3d  South  Carolina  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  17th  South  Carolina  vols.  « 

Co.  B,  25th  Arkansas  vols.  " 

Co.  C,  Scruggs'  bat.  locdef,  troops  " 

Chaplain  P.  A.  C.S.  May    1,1864. 

22d  battalion  Georgia  vols.  May  10, 1864. 

Co.  E,  41  at  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  6th  Tennessee  vols.  « 

Co.  B,  "  . « 

Co.  1. 31st  "  « 

Co.  G,  "  '< 

Co.  F,  "  " 

Co.  B,  9th  "  « 

Co.  H,  27th  "  " 

Co.  G,  12th  Confederate  cavalry  '« 

A.  D.  C.  May  16,  1864. 

A.  Q.  M.  49tU  Georgia  vols.  May  17, 1864. 

Chaplain. 31st         "  '< 

Co.  C,  10th  battalion  Georgia  vols.  " 

Co.  B,  Bonaud's  battalion  " 

Co.  A,  7  th  South  Carolina  cavalry  " 

4th  Mississippi  cavalry  " 

Co.  I,  2d  Mississippi  cavalry  " 


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Lt.  Col. 
First  Lt. 
Major 
Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 

a 

First  Lt. 


Captain 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt, 


First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 

First  Lt. 

Sec'nd  Lt. 
First  Lt. 
Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 

First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 
Colonel 
First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
>( 

Captain 

Sec'nd  Lt. 
Captain 

First  Lt. 
Sec'nd  Lt. 

Captain 
Sec'nd  Lt. 
Lt.  Gen. 
First  Lt. 
Captain 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

Captain 

Sec'nd  Lt. 


J.  B.  McRae, 
Thomas  R.  Evans, 
F.  H.  Garrison, 
Samuel  C.  Taylor, 
J.  L.  Thompson, 
J.  M.  Fleming, 
W.  Greenlee, 

E.  F.  Ewing, 
D.  A.  Aiken, 
L.  F.  Jones,  ^ 

F.  M.  Fulbright, 
John  R.  Ricketts, 
Ot.  L.  Hanks, 

0.  Denton, 
C.  C.  Hart, 
M.  E.  lyie, 
John  R.  Shook, 
S.  C.  Farris, 

G.  R.  Buchanan, 
T.  Deslandes, 

A.  J.  Ridge, 
J.  G.  Hayes, 
C.  D.  George, 

A.  F.  Ward, 
K.  P.  Russell,. 
Ira  F.  Kilgore, 
J.  H.  Long, 

J.  W.  Speight, 

C.  G.  Hart, 
Ransom  Moore, 

B.  Clifford, 
James  S.  Brown, 
John  R.  Johnson, 
F.  C.  Parsons, 
Joseph  W.  Denham, 

A.  M.  Dozier, 

C.  M.  Jackson, 
W.  H.  Quillian, 
J.H.  McDade, 
J.  Thornton, 

B.  F.  Hammock, 
J.  C.  Pemberton, 

D.  C.  Owens, 

D.  W.  Sowers, 
Thomas  E.  Taylor, 
M.  M.  Blythe, 
William  M.  Wilson, 
David  Davidson, 
Wm.  J.  Underwood, 
£.  B.  Mershen, 


3d  Mississippi  vols.  May  16,  1864. 

Co.  F,  43d  Mississippi  vols.  " 

14th  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  Wriglit'a  reg't  Ark.  cavalry  M'ch  26, 1864. 

•Co.  E,  2d  reg't  Arkansas  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  Grimstead's  reg't  Ark.  inf  y  " 

Co.  6,  Cocke's                   "  " 

Co.  F,  2l8t  reg't  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  D,  13th             «  " 

Co.  I,  Wright's  reg't  Ark.  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  3d  Missouri  cavalry  M'ch  31,1864. 

Co.  D,                      "  " 

Co.E,              .       "  " 

Co.  F,  10th  Missouri  infantry  " 

Co.  A,  Brooks'  Arkansas  infantry  " 

Co.  A,  22d  Texas  vols.  « 

Co.  F,  1st  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  C,  3d  Missouri  cavalry  Ap'l    7, 1864. 

Adjutant  16th  Texas  dism'd  cav'ry  " 

Benjamin's  company  cavalry  " 

Co.  D,  17  th  Texas  vols.  » 

18th  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co.  D,  Stevens' regiment  T.  d.  c.   •  " 
Co.  C,  2d  Louisiana  bat.  heavy  artil'y       " 

Co.  E,  16th  Texas  dism'd  cavalry  " 

Co.  E,  4th  Texas  cavalry  " 

15th  Texas  infantry  Ap'l  15,  1864. 

Had's  com'y  par.  ran.,  unattached  " 

Co.  A,  Buster's  bat.  Ark.  cavalry  " 

Light  artillery  " 

Artillery  P.  A.  C.  S.  May  18,  1864. 

Co.  F,  22d  South  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  7  til  Mississippi  battalion  " 

Co.  C,                       "  " 

Co.  D,  2d  Georgia  battalion  s.  s.  " 

Co.  H,  66th  Georgia  vols.  « 

Co.  -I,                    "  « 

Co.L                   "       ♦  «            • 

Co.  K,                 «'  " 

P.  A.  C.  S.  " 

Co.  F,  63d  Virginia  vols.  May  19, 1864. 

Co.  A,  54th             «  " 

Co.  A,  Murray's  battalion  " 

Co.  C,  58th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Co.  K,  51st  Alabstiiia  cavalry  " 

Co.  H,  4th              "  " 

Co.  B,  3d  Georgia  cavalry  " 

Co.  K,  10th  Confederate  cavalry  " 


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First  Lt. 

Robert  Allen, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  R.  F.  Ricks, 

Captain 

M'ilei  EdwardH, 

Rev. 

W.  M.  I'atterHon, 

Captain 

R.  L.  Norman, 

" 

JaniPH  D.  Yonng. 

FjrHt  Lt. 

1'.  Lassalle, 

" 

J.  .r.  Cunningh.am, 

" 

A.  J.  Miller, 

" 

Charles  Neaglin, 

•• 

John  P.  Calvin, 

'■ 

J.  C.  Baker, 

ht 

L.  S.  Lawhan, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  M.  Woodlif, 

" 

J.  A.  Chit  wood. 

First  Lt. 

John  T.  Johnson, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  A.  Davis, 

Captain 

C.  A.  Allon, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  W.  Davidson. 

Ass.  Surg. 

.  3L  Turner, 

Captain 

J.  H.  Graham, 

Surgeon 

N.  W.  WJiite, 

LlontenH 

Ro.  C.  Miller, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  J.  R.  Black, 

Captain 

Ed.  Crenshaw, 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

.  E.  Legion. 

Surgeon 

B  M.  Long, 

Captain 

Dalton  H.  Yancy, 

Sec'nd  Lt, 

W.  R   Hartsflold, 

Colonel 

J.  L.  McCarty, 

Surgeon 

Amzi  Martin, 

Sec'nd  Lt 

.  S.  D.  Brown. 

AsH.Surg. 

M^  L.  Earout, 

Colonel 

W.  P.  Shingler, 

Captain 

H.  McCoy, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

S.W.  Allen, 

" 

Gibson  Dodson, 

Colonel 

J.  L.  Sheffield, 

First  Lt. 

Joseph  H.  Jones. 

«' 

William  M.  Taylor, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

Hardy  W.  Hunter, 

Captain 

R.  M.  Henry, 

First  Lt. 

James  A.  Jervis, 

Captain 

H.  E.  Lane. 

First  Lt. 

E.  T.  Hunnicutt, 

Sec'nd  Lt. 

R.  Gramling, 

Captain 

A.  D.  Outtg, 

" 

M.  S.  Womack. 

Chaplain 

A.S.Worrell, 

First  Lt. 

Jame«  M.  Cameron, 

Co.  E,  1st  Confederate  cavalry  May  19,  1864. 

Co.  E.  l8t  "  " 

Co.  11,  mth  Oeorgia  Vols.  " 

Chaplain  P.  A.  C.S.  Mc'h    1,1864. 

Davis'  reg't  Arkansas  infantry  " 

Co.  E,  5th  Texas  partisan  rangers  " 

Yellow  .Tacket  battalion  " 

Co.  A.  Ipt  Texas  cavalry  " 

Co.  II.  20th  "  " 

Co.  H.  32d  "  •« 

Co.  I,  '2Sth  Louisiana  vols.  " 

Co.  A.  29th  Texas  cavalry  « 

Co.  K,  2d  "  "         . 

Co.  C,  1st  "  •» 

Co.  A,  18th  "  « 

David-snn'g  hattery 

Co.  L,  4Sth  Mi8:jisdippi  vols. 

Co.  G.  46th  .f.Iabama  vols. 

Co.  K,  30th 

22d  "    , 

Co.  A,  2Sth 

26th  battalion  Virginia  vols. 

Drill  m.isfcr  P.  A.  C.  S. 

Co.  E,  43d  Georgia  vols. 

Co.  B,  58th  Alabama  vols. 

Co.  C,  37th  bat.  Virginia  cavalry 

10th  Kentucky  cavalry 

Co.  K.  7th  Alabama  cavalry 

Co.  K.  22d  Mississippi  vols.  " 

2d  Mississippi  cavalry  '■ 

P.  A.  C.S.  " 

Benton's  battery  " 

Cutshaw's  battalion  artillery  " 

Holcombe  legion  " 

A.  Q.  M.  P.  A.  C.  S.  May  31, 1864. 

Citizens'  Guard,  1st  Mobile  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  25th  Arkansas  vols.  " 

48th  Alabama  vols.  " 

Rice's  battery  " 

Co.  C,  2d  Cherokee  regiment  " 

Co.  D,  Bonaud's  battalion  " 

Co.  D.  62d  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  F,  64th  '• 

Co.  G,  56th     .         "  " 

Cjo.  B,  Loo's  rangers  " 

Co.  K,  "  « 

Co.  F,  15th  North  Carolina  vols.  " 

Co.  G,  5th  Mi8siRsippi,yolg.  M'ch  20.  1862. 

P,  A.  C.  S.     •  May     1,  1864. 

<'o.  D.  TerreH'g  regiment  Ap'l  22,  1864. 


May  20, 1864. 


Ap'l  18,  18fi4. 
May  21,  1864. 
May  24,  1864. 
May  30, 1864. 


May  30,  1864. 


12 


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Sec'nd  Lt.  Wm.  Clemens, 
Colonel      Jolin  H.  Burnett, 
Captain     W.  F.  Clarke, 
First  Lt.    J.  M.  I^aylor, 


Co.  K,  od  Tpxhs  infantry  Ap'l  22, 1864. 
13th  Texas  dismonntefl  cavalry  " 

Co.  C,  28th  Lunisian.i  vols.  " 

Co.  H,  Dehay's  reg't  Texas  cavalry  " 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Tnapector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.] 

■  No.  52.  J 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral's  Officb, 
Richmond,  June  13, 1864. 


I.  .The  following  acts  of  Congress  are  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army :  •  ^ 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  THE  ACT  APPROVED  FEBRITARY  17,  1864,  ENTITLED  AN 
ACT  TO  ALLOW  COfMtSSIONED  OFFICERS  OF  THE  ARMY  RATIONS,  AND 
THE  PRIVILEGE  OF  PURCHASING  CLOTHING  FROM  THE  QUARTERMAS- 
TER'S DEPARTMENT. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  all 
commissioned  officers  in  the  army  and  navy  shall  be  entitled  to  one 
ration,  and  all  commissioned  officers  in  the  field  and  afloat,  in  addition 
thereto,  shall  be  allovped  to  purchase  from  any  commissary,  or  Other 
officer  required  to  issue  subsistence  to  soldiers,  marines,  or  seamen,  at 
the  prime  cost  thereof,  including  transportation,  as  follows:  One  ration 
each  for  officers  of  and  below  the  rank  of  colonel;  two  rations  each  for 
officers  of  the  rank  of  brigadier-general,  major-general,  and  lieutenant- 
general  ;  and  three  rations  each  for  a  general ;  one  ration  each  for  com- 
missioned (ifficers  of  the  navy,  of  and  below  the' rank  of  commander; 
and  two  rations  each  for  officers  above  that  rank. 

Sec.  2.  That  an  officer  shall  not  draw  or  purchase,  at  any  time,  more 
of  the  component  part  of  a  ration  than  is  issued  to  the  private  soldier 
at  the  same  time. 

Sec.  3.  That  nothing  contained  in  this  act,  or  the  act  to  which  this  is 
an  amendment,  shall  be  construed  as  allowing  commutation  for  rations, 
or  as  authorizing  an  olHccr  to  receive  or  purchase  rations,  except  when 
he  requires  them  for  his  own  use. 

Sec.  4.  That  this  act  shall  continue  in  force  only  during  the  war. 
[Approved  June  7,  1864.] 

II.-AN'^CT   TO    PROVIDE    TRANSPORTATION    IN    KIND,  IN  CERTAIN  CASES, 
TO  MEMBERS  AND  DELEGATES  IN  CONGRESS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
whenever  the  usually  travelled  routes  between  the  homes  of  members 


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of  Congress  and  the  capital  arc  interfered  with  by  the  enemy,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  military  commanders  to  facilitate  the  passage  of  mem- 
bers and  delegates  going  to  or  returning  from  Congress,  by  furnishing 
transportation  in  kind  for  any  distance  ov«rr  which  the3'  may  state  in 
writing  they  can  not  provide  themselves  with  transportation  ;  nnd  such 
written  application,  endorsed  "  furnished  "  by  the  party  receiving  the 
transportation,  shall  be  accepted  as  a  sufficient  voucher  for  the  expendi- 
ture of  the  officer  in  furnishing  the  same.     [Approved  June  8,  1864.] 

By  order. 

S.  COOrER, 
,  Afljniant  and  fnspeclor-G.enernl. 


OENKRAL  OKDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  iNsrECTOR-QKNERAL's  Office, 

No.  53.  j  Richmond.  Ju7un.  1864. 

I.. The  following  acts  of  Congress  are  published  for  th'e  information 
of  the  army : 

AN  ACT  TO    AUTHORIZE    THB    ArPOlNTMENT    OF    COMMISSAHIES    FOR   REGI- 
MENTS OF  CAVALRY. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Statex  of  America  do  enact,  That  from 
and  after  the  passage  of  this  act  there  shall  be  allowed  to  each  regi- 
ment of  cavalry  in  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  one  commissa- 
ry, with  the  same  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  as  are  now  allowed  by  law 
to  the  quartermaster  of  such  regiment.     [Approved  May  23,  1864.] 

[2.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN    ACT  ENTITLED    "AN  ACT  CREATING  THE  OFFICE  OP 
ENSIGN  IN  THE  ARMY  OF    THB    CONFEDERATE  STATES." 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
above  cited  act  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  amended  so  as  to  allow  the 
appointment  of  an  ensign  to  each  battalion  of  infantry. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  said  act  and  this  amendment  thereto  shall  be  un- 
derstood and  construed  to  apply  only  to  the  Provisional  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States.     [Approved  May  31,  18t)4.] 

[3-] 

AN    ACT    TO  FURNISH    TRANHFOflTATION    TO    OFFICERS    OF  THE    ARMY    AND 
NTIVV    WHILE  TRAVELLING    UNDER  ORDERS. 

Th''  f^'ingrrss  of  the  Confederate  St'ttes  of  America  do  enact.  That  the 


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ofTiccrs  of  the  army  and  navy,  while  travelling  under  orders  of  the  War 
or  Navy  department,  ghall  be  allowed  transportation  in  kind  for  them- 
selves and  their  personal  baggage,  and  ten  dollars  per  day  for  expenses 
while  necessarily  travelling  in  the  execution  of  their  orders.  [Approved 
June  4,  1864.] 

[4.] 

AN  ACT   TO    PROYIDE    FOR    ADDITIONAL   MILITARY  STOBRKEEPERS   IN  THE 
PROVISIONAL  ARMY  OF  THE  CONPEPKRATE  STATES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Gonfedernte  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President  be  authorized  to  appoint  ten  military  storekeepers  of  ord- 
nance in  the  Provisional  Army  of  the  Coirfederate  States,  in  addition  . 
to  those  authorized  by  act  of  May  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
three,  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  military  store- 
keepers in  the  Provisional  Army  of  the  Confederate  States,"  five  with 
the  pay  and  allowances  of  a  captain-  of  infantry,  and  five  with  the  pay 
and  allowances  of  a  first  lieutenant  of  infantry. 

Sec.  2.  That  military  storekeepers  of  the  first  class,  so  appointed, 
shall  be  required  to  give  the  usual  bonds  in  the  sum  of  twenty  thousand 
dollars,  and  those  of  the  second  class  in  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars. This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage :  Provided, 
That  no  one  shall  be  appointed  under  its  provisions  except  persons  who 
were  performing  the  duties  of  acting  military  storekeepers  prior  to 
January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  or  have  become  inca- 
pacitated by  wounds  or  sickness  for  active  service.  [Approved  June  4, 
1864. 

[5-] 

AN    ACT    TO    INCREASE    THE    COMPENSATION    OF    THE     NON-COMMISSIONED 
OPFICEBS  AND  PRIVATES  OF  THE  ARMY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  from 
and  after  the  passage  of  this  act  the  pay  of  the  non-commissioned  offi- 
cers, privates,  and  musicians  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby,  increased  seven  dollars  per  month  for  the  period 
of  one  year  from  the  passage  of  this  act.     [Approved  June  9,  1864.] 

[6.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "  AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  A  NITRE 
AND  MINING  BUREAU,"  APPROVED  APRIL  TWENTY-SECOND,  EIGHTEEN 
HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-THREE. 

The  OongresR  of  the  Confederate  Statin  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
act  approved  April    twenty-second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty  three. 


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oonatituling  the  Nitre  and  Miuitig  buitiau  nn  independent  buruau  of  tbe 
War  department,  be  amended  as  follows :  That  the  Nitre  and  Mining 
bureau  shall  consist  of  one  coloneJiiis  chief  of  bureau,  two  lieutenant- 
colonels,  six  majors,  twelve  captains,  who  shall  hare  the  same  pay  and 
allowances  prescribed  for  officers  of  cavalry  of  the  same  grade. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  chemists  and  professional  assist- 
ants, absolutely  essential  for  the  operations  of  the  bureau,  not  to  exceed 
six  of  each  class,  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  with  pay 
in  no  ease  to  be  above  that  of  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  commissioned 
corps. 

Sec.  .3.  That  this  act  shall  continue  in  force  only  during  the  present 
war.     [Approved  Juno  9, 1864.] 

['■] 

AN  ACT  FOR  THK  PAYMENT  OP  COHJUSSIONERS  APPOINTED  UNDER  THE 
ACT  ENTITLED  "  AN  ACT  TO  SUSPB.  *HE  PRIVILEGE  OP  THE  WRIT  OP 
HABEAS  CORPUS  IN  CERTAIN  CASES,"  AND  TO  CONFER  CERTAIN  POW- 
ERS UPON  SAID  COMMISSIONERS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
commissioners  appointed  under  the  said  act  shall  be  entitled  to  receive 
the  compensation  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  each  per  month,  from 
the  date  of  their  respective  appointments,  until  the  expiration  of  their 
service  ;  and  that  their  assistants  shall  be  allowed  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  per  month  from  the  date  of  their  appointments  respectivelj', 
until  the  expiration  of  their  service. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  said  commissioners  shall  have  the  power  conferred 
upon  commissioners  appointed  by  the  district  courts  by  the  act  of  the 
Provisional  Congress  approved  thirtieth  of  August,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-one,  and  numbered  two  hundred  and  seventy-three  in  the 
acts  of  the  said  Congress.     [Approved  June  9, 1864.] 

[8.]  - 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  COMPENSATION  OF  NON-COMMISSIONBD 
OFFICERS,  SOLDIERS,  SAILORS,   AND  MARINES,  ON  DETAILED  SERVICE. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  all 
persons  detailed  from  the  army  or  after  enrolment  for  military  service, 
or  from  the  navy  or  marine  corps,  for  special  duty  or  extra  duty,  shall 
be  allowed  to  receive  their  regular  pay,  rations,  and  allowances,  as  if 
they  were  performing  service  in  the  field. 

Sec  2.  That  all  such  detached  or  detailed  men  shall  be  allowed,  in 
addition,  not  exceeding  two  dollars  per  day,  and  compensatioh  for  all 
extra  work,  or  for  any  uncommon  skill  or  industry  displayed  in  the  per- 


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formance  of  duties  to  which  they  may  bo  assigned,  ia  proportion  to  the 
Value  of  such  extra  labor  or  uncommon  skill  or  industry,  whether  it  be 
in  performing  an  unusual  amount  of  work  within  the  usual  hours  of 
labor,  or  work  performed  beyond  tho.  usual  hours,  or  extraordinary  skill 
and  superior  workmanship  displayed  in  the  execution  of  such  duties, 
the  value  of  said  extra  labor  or  uncommon  skill  or  industry  to  be  de- 
termined by  the  officer  or  superintendent  under  whose  immediate  direc- 
tion said  detached  or  detailed  service  may  be  performed,  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War  or  Navy.  The  additional  compensa- 
tion provided  in  this  section  shall  be  the  same  for  both  the  War  and 
Navy  departments,  under  certain  rules  to  be  prescribed  by  the  Presi- 
dent. 

Sec.  3.  That  all  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  privates,  sail- 
ors, or  marines,  detailed  to  government  contractors,  shall  be  so  detail- 
ed without  pay  and  allowances,  but  shall  bo  compensated  for  their  ser- 
vices by  wages  received  from  said  contractors,  under  rules  to  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  Secretary  of  Wa^.air^f  the  Navy.  [Approved  June  9, 
1864.] 

[9.] 

AN  ACT    TO  ORGANIZE    A  CORPS  OF    SCOUTS    AND  GUARDS    TO  FACILITATE 
COMMUNICATION  WITH  THE  TRANS-MISSISSIPPI  DEPARTMENT. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  Thftt  the 
President  of  the  Confederate  States  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  by 
and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  to  appoint  one  major 
and  four  captains  to  do  service  as  scouts  in  the  Valley  of  the  Mississip- 
pi river,  or  to  assign  any  proper  officers  for  that  purpose. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  officers  thus  commissioned  sh.all  have  authority  to 
raise  four  companies,  to  be  officered  by  the  President,  to  be  composed 
of  such  members  and  such  persons  as  he  may  approve,  for  scout  and 
guard  duty  for  government  transportation  across  the  Mississippi  river, 
under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  War  de- 
partment. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  President  may  detail  such  officers  and  men  from  the 
army  as  he  may  deem  peculiarly  qualified  for  such  service. 

Sec.  4.  That  such  scouts  and  guards  shall  be  composed  either  of  in- 
fantry or  cavalry,  or  in  part  of  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  President, 
and  equipped  in  such  manner  as  will  make  them  most  eflfective,  and 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  pay  and  allowances,  and  be  subject  to  the 
same  regulations,  as  other  soldiers.     [Approved  June  10,  1864.] 


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[10.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMBND  AN  ACT  KNTITLEO  "AN  ACT  TO  ORGANIZJl  MILITAKY 
COURTS  TO  ATTEND  THE  ARMY  OP  THE  CONFUnKR/VTE  STATES  IN  THE 
FIRLD,  AND    TO  DEFINU    THE    POWERS  OP    SAID  COURTS." 

The  CouijreKS  <>/  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  above  entitled  act  bo  so  amended,  that  in  all  instances  in  which  tho 
particular  division,  corps,  district,  or  other  subordinate  organization, 
to  which  a  military'  court  Is  or  may  be  hereafter  appointed  or  assigned, 
the  commander  of  the  army  or  department  may,  by  order,  when  in  his 
discretion  it  shall  be  proper  and  safe  to  do  so,  direct  and  empower  the 
commander  of  the  subordinate  division,  corps,  district,  etc.,  to  pass  up- 
on and  refer  for  trial  all  charges  aud  specifications  to  come  before  said 
court,  review  and  confirm  or  disapprove  the  records  thereof,  transmit 
the  same  direct  to  the  War  department,  remit  of  suspend  sentences 
(where  lawful),  and  take  all  action  and  exercise  alfjurisdiction  in  that 
behalf  which  pertains,  under  existing  laws,  to  the  commander  of  the 
army  or  department. 

Sec  2.  That  from  and  after  tho  passage  of  this  act,  when  any  per- 
son shall  have  been  tried  by  any  military  court  or  court-martial,  and 
acquitted  of  the  charge  or  charges  preferred,  the  finding  of  the  court 
shall  be  annouucod  immediately,  and  the  person  so  tried  and  acquitted, 
if  a  soldier,  shall  be  released  from  arrest  and  returned  to  duty ;  aud 
if  other  than  a  soldier,  discharged  from  custody  without  awaiting  tho 
examination  or  report  of  the  reviewing  of  such  court.  [Approved 
Juno  14,  1804.] 

[U.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  FORMATION  OP  NEW  COMMANDS,  TO  BE 
COMPOSED  OF  SlTl'ERNUMERAHY-  OFFICBUS,  WHO  MAY  RESIGN  TO  JOIN 
avon  COMMANDS,  AND  TO  LIMIT  AND  RESTRICT  THE  APPOINTMENT 
OF    OFFICERS    IN    CERTAIN    CASES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Coii/edtrate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  tho 
President  is  hereby  authorized  to  grant  authority  for  the  organization 
of  companies,  battalions,  or  regiments,  to  be  composed  of  supernumera- 
ry olUccrs  of  the  Provisional  Army. 

Sec.  2.  That  it  shall  be  lawful  for  any  supernumerary  officer  to  join 
said  organization,  or  any  other  company  in  the  Confederate  service, 
which  docs  not  exceed  the  maximum  prescribed  by  law,  upon  tender  to 
the  proper  authorities  of  his  resignation  for  that  purpose. 

Seo.  ;i.  That  the  offices  left  vacant  by  such  resignations  shall  not 
be  filled,  and  that  hereafter  the  lowest  grade  of  commissioned  ofTicers 
of  a  company  shall  not  be  filled,  unless  there  are  upon  the  rolls  of  the 
company  for  service  at  least  forty-six  nou-commissioned  officers  aud 


privates  ;  nor  shall  the  position  of  senior  second  lieutenant  be  filkd  in 
case  of  vacancy  therein,  unless  there  are  upon  the  rolls  of  the  compa- 
ny for  service  at  least  thirty  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates; 
nor  shall  the  position  of  first  lieutenant  be  filled  unless,  in  case  of  a 
vacancy,  there  are  at- least  twenty  non-commissioned  otilcers  and  pri- 
vates on  the  rolls  of  the  company  for  service — which  fact  shall,  in  eaoh 
case,  be  certified  to  by  the  captain  of  the  cQ»npany,  and  approved  by 
the  colonel  of  the  regiment,  before  such  promotion  can  be  made.  [Ap- 
proved June  14;,  1864.] 

[12.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  AN  IN-. 
VALID  CORPS,"  APPROVED  SEVENTEENTH  FEBRUARY,  EIGHTEEN  HUN- 
DRED   AND    SIXTY-POUR. 

The  Conyresa  of  the  Covfedcrate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
act  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  an  invalid  corps,"  approved  February 
seventeenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  be  extended  to  and  held 
to  embrace  the  ordinary  seamen,  landsmen,  and  boys  of  the  navy, 
and  the  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  and  privates  of  the  ma- 
rine corps  ,•  and  that  assignments  to  duty  of  all  ofncers,  men,  and  boys 
of  the  navy,  and  of  the  marine  corps,  undej  the  fourth  section  of  the 
said  act,  shall  be  made  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy.  [Approved 
June  1,  1864.] 

[13.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  90  MUCH  OP  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  ORGAN- 
IZE FORCES  TO  SERVE  DURING  THE  WAR,"  APPROVED  FEBRUARY 
SEVENTEENTH,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-FOUR,  AS  RELATES 
TO    THE    EXEMPTION    OF    CERTAIN    RELIGIOUS    DENOMINATIONS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
Secretiiry  of  AVar  shall  be  authorized  to  grant  exemptions  to  the  mem- 
bers of  various  denominations  of  Christians  mentioned  in  the  Exemp- 
tion act  of  the  eleventh  of  October,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
who  at  that  time  belonged  to  the  same,  and  who  were  in  regular  asso- 
ciation therewith,  upon  the  terras  and  conditions  specified  in  that  act, 
or  upon  such  other  terms  and  conditions  a:s  he  is  authorized  to  allow 
exemptions  or  grant  details  under  any  of  the  clauses  of  the  act  ap- 
proved February  seventeenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  to 
which  this  is  an  amendment. 

Sec  2.  That  the  Secretary  of  AVar  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized 
to  revoke  any  such  exemptions  under  the  act  aforesaid,  when  the  same 
have  been  obtained  by  any  fraud,  misrepresentation,  or  error.  [Ap- 
proved June  7,  1864.] 


Ill 

[I'M 

AN  ACT  TO  AtTTHOmZE  THE  APPOINTMENT  OF  QUARTERMASTERS  ANP 
ASSISTANT  QDARTERMASTERS,  AND  OOMMISSARIES  AND  ASSISTANT 
COMAIISSARIES,    IN    THE    PROVISIONAL    ARMY    IN    CERTAIN    CASES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enircf,  That 
tbe  President  is  hereby  authorized,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  Senate,  to  appoint  for  the  Provisional  Army  additional  q^uar- 
termasters  and  commissaries,  with  the  rank  of  colonel,  lieutenant-colo- 
nel, and  major:  Provide(},  That  such  additional  quartermasters  and 
commissaries,  with  the  rank  of  colonel,  shall  not  oxoood  the  number  of 
military  departments  and  separate  armies  existing  at  the  time  of  their 
appointment ;  and  that  the  additional  quartermasters  and  commissa- 
ries, with  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  shall  not  exceed  the  number 
of  army  corps  existing  at  the  time  of  their  appointment;  and  that  the 
additional  quartermasters  and  commissaries,  with  the  rank  of  m.ajor, 
shall  not  exceed  the  number  of  divisions  of  the  army  existing  at  the 
time  of  their  api)ointment;  and  for  the  collection,  control,  and  distri- 
bution of  railroad  and  field  transportation  and  army  supplies,  the  Presi- 
dent may  appoint  such  additional  quartermasters  and  assistant  quar- 
termasters and  commissaries  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  efficient  exe- 
cution of  the  duties  of  the  Quartermaster's  and  Commissary's  depart- 
ments; and  such  purchasing  agents  or  transportation  agents  may  be 
employed  as  the  service  may  require,  who  shall  not  have  military  rank, 
and  whose  compensation  shall  not  exceed  the  pay  of  a  captain  of  infan- 
try, and  who  may  be  required  to  give  bond  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  those  duties;  but  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed 
to  prohibit  the  assignment  of  quartermasters  and  commissaries,  or  as- 
sistant quartermasters  or  commiss.aries  to  any  of  the  foregoing  duties, 
or  to  the  duty  of  paying  the  troops:  Provided,  That  all  said  appoint- 
ments shall  be  made  from  persons  who  are  over  forty-five  years  of  age, 
or  who  are  incapacitated  physically  for  service  in  the  field,  or  who  have 
been  in  the  service  over  twelve  months,  or  who  have  been  heretofore 
discharging  any  of  the  afwesaid  duties  :  Provided,  further.  That  ad- 
ditional assistant  quartermasters  and  commissaries  shall  not  be  ap- 
pointed if  there  are  ofiBcers  already  in  service  who  can  bo  assigned  to 
such  duties  without  detriment  to  the  service. 

8ec.  2.  That  it  shall  be  no  longer  incumbent  on  the  President  to 
appointor  to  keep  in  service  an  assistant  quartermaster  with  the  rank  of 
captain,  for  each  regiment  or  battalion  in  the  field,  hut  he  may  assign  tbe 
quartermaster  of  any  army  corps,  division,  brigade,  regiment,  or  battal- 
ion, or  the  commissary  of  any  army,  army  corps,  division,  or  brigade  to 
duty  as  quartermaster  or  commissary  elsewhere,  and  to  assign  qnarter- 
masterd,  assistanl  quartermasters,  and  commissaries  and  assistant  dom- 


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misaaries  appointed  to  posts  or  depots,  or  for  otUer  duties,  to  serve  with 
armies,  army  corps,  divisions,-  or  brigades  in  the  field,  whenever,  in  his 
opinion,  the  public  interest  will  be  promoted  thereby. 

Sec.  3.  That  in  case  the  services  of  any  regimental  quartermaster, 
or  any  other  quartermaster  or  assistant  quartermaster,  or  commissary 
or  assistant  commissary,  appointed  under  this  act,  can,  in  the  opinion 
of  the  President,  be  dispensed  with,  and  such  oHicer  can  not  be  other- 
wise appropriately  employed  to  the  public  interest,  his  name  shall  be 
dropped  from  the  rolls,  and  he  shall  cease  to  be  an  olficer  of  the  Pro- 
visional Army. 

Sec.  4.  That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  ap- 
point one  quartermaster,  with  the  rank  of  major,  for  each  state,  and 
one  assistant  quartermaster,  with  the  rank  of  captain,  for  each  congres- 
sional district  iu  the  several  states,  to  execute  tlie  duties  of  the  act  in 
reference  to  the  tax  in  kind:  Provided,  That  the  appointments  to  be 
made  in  pursuance  of  this  section  shall  be  made  with  the  same  restric- 
tions and  limitations  as  are  set  forth  in  the  first  proviso  to  the  first  sec- 
tion of  this  act.     [Approved  June  14,  186-4.] 

[15.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  AID  ANV  STATE  IN 
COMMUNICATING  WITH  AND  PERFECTING  UECOnDS  CONCERNING  ITS 
TROOPS,"  APPROVED  SI.XTHENTH  FEBRUARV,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED 
AND    SIXTY-FOUR. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
above  named  act  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended,  so  as  to  allow  to 
the  state  ofiicer  therein  named  the  right  to  purchase  forage  for  one  horse 
in  addition  to  the  right  granted  thereby  to  purchase  one  ration — said 
purchase  to  be  made  upon  the  same  terms  and  conditions,  and  und,er  the 
same  circumstances,  under  which  officers  of  the  Provisional  Army  may 
be  allowed  to  purchasje  rations  or  forage.     [Approved  May  31,  1864".] 

[16.] 

AN    ACT   TO    AMEND   THE    SEVERAL    ACTS    IN    REGARD    TO    CHAPLAINS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  Senate,  to  appoint,  when  in,  his  judgment  it  may  be  prop- 
er to  do  so,  chaplains  to  battalions  and  general  hospitals,  who  shall  re- 
ceive the  same  pay  and  allowances  now  authorized  by  law  to  chaplains 
appointed  to  regiments  and  posts.     [Approved  May  31,  1804.] 


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[17.] 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THK  APPOINTMKNT  OF  OFFICERt  WITH  TEM- 
PORARY RANK  AND  COMMAND. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  the 
President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  Seuafto,  to  appoint  temporary  officers  of  the  rank  of 
brigadier-general,  major-general,  lieutenant-general,  or  general,  for  the 
Provisional  Army,  and  assign  them  to  any  appropriate  command. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  said  officers,  so  appointed,  shall  only  hold  their  said 
rank  and  their  said  command  for  such  time  as  the  temporary  exigency 
may  require,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time  they  shall  resume  their 
previous  permanent  rank  and  command.     [Approved  May  31,  1864.] 

[IS.] 

JOINT  RESOLUTION  TO  ALLOW  SICK  AND  WOUNDED  OFFICERS  OF  THE 
ARMY  TRANSPORTATION  TO  THEIR  HOMES,  AND  HOSPITAL  ACCOMMODA- 
TIONS. 

Resolved,  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  That 
sick  and  wounded  officers  on  leave,  upon  certificates  of  a  board  of  sur- 
geons, be  allowed  transportation  to  their  homes  and  back  to  their  com- 
mands, as  in  the  case  of  enlisted  men  on  furlough ;  the  indulgence 
hereby  accorded  to  continue  in  force  for  ninety  days  after  the  next 
meeting  of  Congress. 

Resolved,  further.  That  all  sick  and  wounded  officers  in  the  naval  and 
military  service  shall  be  entitled  to  enter  any  hospital  and  receive  such 
treatment  and  rations  as  now  provided  by  law,  free  of  charge.  [Ap- 
proved June  10,  1864.] 

[19.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  "AN  ACT  TO  0RGANI/.E  FORCES  TO  SERVE  DURING 
THE  WAR,"  APPROVEd  FEBRUARY  SEVENTEENTH,  EIGHTEEN  HUN- 
DRED   AND    SIXTY-FOUR. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
act  entitled  "An  act  to  organize  forces  to  serve  during  the  war,"  ap- 
proved seventeenth  February,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  bo  and 
the  same  is  hereby  so  amended  as  to  allow  all  white  residents  between 
the  ages  of  seventeen  and  eighteen,  and  forty-five  and  fifty  years,  who 
were  prevented  from  enrolling  themselves  within  the  time  prescribed  by 
the  said  act,  by  the  occupation  of  their  localities  or  country  bj'  the 
public  enemy,  and  whose  homes  are,  and  have  been  since  the  passage 
of  said  act,  beyond  the  lines  of  the  Confederate  armies,  to  organize 
themselves  in  pursuance  of  the  sixth  section  of  said  act,  after  their 
homes  or  localities   are  brought  within  the  lines  of  the  Confederate 


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armies ;  and  this  privilege  shall  continue  for  the  space  of  thirty  days 
after  the  reoccupation  is  announced  by  an  order  issued  by  the  general 
commanding  the  department,  and  published  in  the  military  department . 
in  which  such  reoccupation  may  occur.     [Approved  June  10, 1864.] 

[20.] 

AN    ACT    TO    GRADUATE    THE    PAY    OP    GENEBAIi    OFFICERS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
pay  of  a  general  shall  be  five  hundred  dollars  per  month  j  that  of  a 
lieutenant-general  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  month,  and  that 
of  a  major-general  three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  month ;  that  a 
general  commanding  an  army  in  the  field  shall  receive,  in  addition  to 
the  said  sura  of  five  hundred  dollars  per  month,  one  hundred  dollars; 
and  a  lieutenant-general,  a  major-general,  and  a  brigadier-general 
shall,  while  serving  in  the  field,  each  receive  fifty  dollars  per  month,  in 
addition  to  the  sum  herein  allowed,  while  so  serving;  and  all  laws 
allowing  additional  compensation  for  commanding  a  separate  army  in 
the  field  be  and  they  are  hereby  repealed,  except  as  herein  provided; 
and  that  this  act  shall  be  in  force  for  one  yeai',  and  no  longer.  [Ap- 
proved June  10,  1864.] 

[21.] 

AN    ACT    TO    AUTHORIZE     THE     APPOINTMENT     OP     ADDITIONAL     OFFICERS 
OP    ARTILLERY    FOR    ORDNANCE    DUTIES. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  may  ap- 
point fifty  officers  of  artillery  in  the  Pi-ovisional  Army  for  the  perform- 
ance of  ordnance  duties,  in  addition  to  those  authorized  by  the  act 
entitled  "  an  Act  to  authorize  the  appointment  of  officers  of  artillery  in 
the  Provisional  Army,"  approved  April  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  and  "An  act  to  authorize  the  appointment  of  additional 
officers  of  artillery  for  ordnance  duties,"  approved  September  six- 
teenth, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  that  the  rank  of  said  offi- 
cers shall  be  as  provided  in  said  last  named  act."  [Approved  June  10, 
1864.] 

[22.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  ORGANIZE  MILITARY 
COURTS  TO  ATTEND  THE  ARMY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  IN  THE 
FIELD,  AND  TO  DEFINE  THE  POWERS  OF  SAID  COURTS,"  APPROVED 
OCTOBER   NINTH,    EIGHTEEN    HUNDRED    AND    SIXTY-TWO. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  so 
much  of  the  said  act  a^  empowers  the  said  military  courts  to  appoint 
their  clerks  and  marshals,  and  provides  for  the  payment  of  the  salaries 


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of  the  said  officers,  is  hereby  repealed ;  and  liereaiter  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  detail  and  assign  persons  to  fill  said 
offices  from  military  officers  and  non-commiasioned  officers  and  privates 
unable  to  perform  duty  in  the  field,  and  the  compensation  of  such  per- 
sons shall  only  be  the  pay  to  which  thoy  may  be  respectively  entitled 
by  virtue  of  their  military  commissions.     [Approved  June  14,  1364] 

[23.] 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE    AND    ORGANr/.E  A    GENERAL    STAFF    FOR    ARMIES  IN 
THE  FIELD  TO  SF.RVE  DURING  THE  WAR. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confedttatc  Stales  o/  America  do  enact,  That 
hereafter  the  general  staff  of  the  army  shall  conf^tituto  a  corps,  and' 
staff  officers  shall  no  longer,  except  by  assignment,  be  attached  to  any 
particular  militar,-  organization,  or  be  held  to  duty  at  any  post.  That 
promotions  in  said  corps  shall  be  by  selection,  based  upon  capacity, 
merit,  and  service,  and  no  one  shall  be  appointed  in  said  corps  unless 
he  has  been  two  years,  at  least,  in  the  military  service  during  the  war, 
or  is  over  forty-five  years  of  age,  or  is  unfit  for  military  service  in  the 
field. 

■Sec.  2.  That  the  President  is  hereby  authorized  to  assign  all  officers 
of  the  staff  to  such  rp'propriate  duties  as  he  may  think  proper,  except 
that  he  shall  not  assign  them  to  commands  in  the  line,  unless  in  cases 
of  cm?rgcucy,  and  then  only  for  a  eh^rt  time  ;  and  no  officer  shall  be 
allowed  lo  hold,  at  the  same  time,  a  commission  or  iippoiutment  in  tho 
staff  and  in  tho  line. 

Sec.  3.  That  Wio  President  i.s  hereby  authorized,  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  any  general  commaniling  an  army  in  the  field,  to  appoint,  by  and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  or  assign  for  duty  with  such 
general  whilst  so  commiuiding,  a  general  officer,  who  shall  be  charged, 
under  the  direction  of  the  general,  with  tlft  administration  of  his  army; 
there  shall  also  be  allowed  to  a  general  so  commanding  two  assistant 
adjutants-general,  one  chief  quartermaster,  one  chief  of  ordnance,  and 
one  chief  commissary,  each  with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  colo- 
nel of  cavalry  ;  a  surgeon,  as  medical  director,  with  the  pay  and  allow- 
ances of  a  colonel  of  cavalry;  one  aide-de-camp,  with  tho  rank,  pay, 
and  allowances  of  a  colonel  of  cavalry  ;  and  one  aide-de-camp,  with  the 
rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  li«utenant-colonel  of  cavalry. 

Sec.  4.  That  to  a  lieulenant-genoral  commanding  a  coc^s  d'armee 
shall  be  allowed,  to  be  appointed  by  the  President,  by  and  with  the  ad- 
vice and  consent  of  tho  Senate,  two  assistant  adjutants-general,  with 
the  rank,  pay,  apd  allowances  each  of  a  colonel  of  cavalry:  a  chief  of 
ordnance,  a  chief  quartermaster,  and  a  chief  cr)mmissary,  each  with 
the  rank,   pay,  and  allowances  of  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  cavalry  ;   he 


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stall  also  be  allowed  one  surgeon,  as  niGdical  director,  to  be  appointed 
by  the  President,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  with  the 
pay  and  allowances  of  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  cavalry;  and,  to  be  ap- 
pointed as  above,  one  aide-de-camp,  with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances 
of  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  cavalry,  and  one  aide-de-camp,  vrith  the 
rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  major  of  cavalry. 

Sec.  5.  That  to  a  major-general  commanding  a  division  there  shall 
be  allowed,  to  be  appointed  by  the  President,  with  the  advice  and  eon- 
sent  of  the  Senate,  two  assistant  adjutants-general,  with  the  rank,  pay, 
and  allowances  of  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  cavalry;  one  chief  of  ord- 
nance, one  chief  quartermaster,  and  one  chief  commissary,  each  with 
the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  major  of  cavalry;  also  a  surgeon, 
with  the  pay^  and  allowances  of  a  major  of  cavalry;  cnp  aide-de-camp, 
with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  major  of  cavalry,  and  one  aide- 
de-camp,  with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  captain  of  cavalry. 

Sec.  6.  That  to  a  brigadier-general  commanding  a  brigade  shall  be 
allowed,  to  be  appointed  as  hereinbefore  directed,  two  assistant  adju- 
tants-general and  one  assistant, inspector-general,  with  the  rank,  pay, 
and  allowances  each  of  a  major  of  cavalry;  one  surgeon,  with  the  pay 
and  allowances  of  a  major  of  cavalry;  one  or(Jnance  officer,  with  the 
rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  captain  of  cavalry;  one  aide-de-camp, 
with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  captain  of  cavalry,  and  one 
aide-de-camp,  with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  first  lieutenant  of 
cavalry. 

Sec.  7.-  That  the  President  is  hereby  authorized  to  reduce  thenum- 
ber  of  officers  allowed  by  this  act  to  the  staff  of  any  general  officer,  or 
to  increase  the  same  when,  in  bis  opinion,  the  service  will  be  benefited 
thereby. 

Sec.  8.  That  all  appointments  under  this  act  shall  be  made  from 
those  already  in  service.     [Approved  June  14,  1864.] 

[24.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTI- 
TLED AN  Act  TO  ORGANIZE  MILITARY  COURTS  TO  ATTEND  THE  ARMY  OF 
THE  CONEEDERATK  STATES  IN  THE  FIELD,  AND  TO  DEFINE  THE  POWERS 
OF  SAID  COURTS,"  APPROVED  FEBRUARY  THIRTEENTH,  EIGHTEEN  HUN- 
DRED AND  SIXTY-FOUR.  f/ 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
proviso  to  said  act,  and  also  so  much  thereof  as  requires  that  the  judge 
of  the  military  court  in  North  Alab.ama  shall  give  ten  days  notice  of 
the  times  and  places  of  holding  said  courts  before  the  same  are  held,  be 
and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed.     [Approved  Juno  14,  1864.] 


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[25.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMENP  THE  I;AWS  RRI.ATING  TO  tHE   roMMUTATION  VA  LTTE  OP 
HOSPITAL  UATIONS. 

The  Conrjiess  of  the  Confederate  Statcti  of  America  (fo  eiinrt,  That  the 
coinniutation  Viilue  of  rations  of  the  sick  and  ■wounded  officers  nnd  sol- 
diers in  hospitals  or  other  places,  used  in  camp  or  the  field  as  hospitals, 
be  fixed  at  the  government  cost  of  said  rations,  and  one  hundred  per 
centum  thcr^t)n :  Provided,  That  said  one  hundred  per  centum  on  the 
government  cost  of  each  ration  commuted  shall  constitute  a  hospital 
fund,  and  be  drawn  and  appropriated  as  the  Secretary  of  War  shall 
deem  necessary,  to  purchase  supplies  for  the  use  of  the  sick  and  dis- 
abled of  the  army  in  hospitals.     [Approved  June  14,  1864.] 

[26.] 

AK  ACT  TO  PROMOTE  THE  EFFICIENCY  OF  THE  CAVALRY  OF  THE  PROVI- 
SIONAL ARMY,  AND  TO  PUNISH  LAWLESSNESS  AND  IRREGULARITIES  OF 
ANY  PORTIOfiS  THEREOF. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States,  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
commanding  general  of  any  army  in  the  field  shall  have  the  power  to 
direct  the  dismounting  of  any  non-commissioned  officer  or  ofiicers,  sol- 
dier or  soldiers  in  the  cavalry  service  in  his  command,  and  to  place  him 
or  them  in  the  infantry,  who  shall  misbehave  before  the  enemy,-or  shall 
be  guilty  of  illegally  wasting,  spoliating,  or  appropriating  to  his  own 
use  any  private  property,  or  of  doing  any  violence  to  anj'  citizen. 

Sec  2.  That  the  horses  belonging  to  persons  so  dismounted,  and 
which  they  may  have  had  in   the  service,  may  be  taken  for  the  use  of 
the  army,  and  the  appraised  value  thereof  shall  bo  paid  to  the  owner. 
[Approved  June  7,  1864.] 
'■■  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "i  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gknkral's  Office. 

No.  &4.  I  Richmond.  June  17, 1864. 

The  act  of  Congress  providing  for  the  establishment  and  payment  of 
claims  for  a  certain  description  of  property  tnken  or  informally  im- 
pressed for  the  use  of  the  army,  approved  .Tune  14,  1864,  with  accom- 
panying instructions,  arc  published  for  the  information  and  instruction 
of  all  concerned  : 


us 


AN  ACT  PROVIDING  FOR  THE  KSTABHSHMENT  AND  PAYMENT  OF  CLAIMS 
FOR  A  CERTAIN  DESCRIPTION  OF  PROPERTY  TAKEN  OR  INFORMALLY 
IMPRESSED  FOR  THE   USE  OF  THE  AEMY. 

The  Conijrcsa  of  the  Confederate  S'taten  of  America  do  enact,  That  it 
shall  be  the  dutj-  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  appoint  and  assign,  in 
each  congressional  district  and  for  each  territory,  an  agent,  not  liable 
to  military  duty  in  the  field,  who  shall,  at  stated  times,  in  each  county 
or  parish,  under  the  direction  of  the  post  quartermaster  nearest  to  him, 
receive  and  take  proof,  under  oath,  in  relation  to  all  claims  in  said  dis- 
trict for  forage,  provisions,  cattle,  sheep,  hogs,  horses,  mules,  teams, 
and  wagons  heretofore  furnished  to  the  army  by  the  owner,  or  hereto- 
fore taken  or  informally  impressed  for  the  use  of  the  army,  and  not  yet 
paid  for,  by  any  oiBcer  in  the  railitarj'  service,  or  by  his  order  or  direc- 
tion, express  or  implied  from  the  use  of  the  property,  whether  said 
officer  be  a  line  or  staff  officer,  and  whether  he  be  a  bonded  officer  or 
otherwise,  and  report  the  facts  and  transmit  the  evidence  in  each  case 
to  the  proper  accounting  officers  of  the  Treasury,  together  with  his  opin- 
ion as  to  the  justice  and  validity  of  the  claim  ;  and  the  said  accounting 
officers  are  herebj'  a,uthorized  to  audit  and  control,  and  order  payment 
of  such  claims  as  appear  to  them  to  be  equitable  and  just:  Provided, 
That  all  such  claims  originating  west  of  the, Mississippi  river  shall  be 
reported  to  the  accounting  officers  of  the  Treasury  department  estab- 
lished for  the  trans-Mississippi  department,  who  are  hereby  authorized 
to  audit,  control,  and  direct  payment  of  the  same  in  the  same  manner 
as  the  accounting  officers  of  the  Treasury  east  of  the  Mississippi  river. 
And  the  said  agent  is  hereby  authorized,  in  taking  testimony  in  regard 
to  said  claims,  to  administer  oaths  to  witnesses,  and,  if  he  think  proper, 
to  the  claimants  themselves.  The  compensation  allowed  to  said  agent 
shall  be  ten  dollars  per  day  while  actually  engaged  in  the  performance 
of  the  duties  imposed  on  him  b}-  this  act,  and  thirty  cents  per  mile  for 
every  mile  actually  travelled  by  him — to  be  paid  under  regulations  to 
be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  W;i,r  :  Provided,  That  the  Secretary 
of  War  may  assign  to  the  duty  herein  mentioned  any  quartermaster  or 
disabled  officer  of  *-he  army,  and,  in  that  event,  said  officer  or  quarter- 
master shall,  in  addition  to  the  compensation  now  allowed  him  by  law, 
be  entitled  to  mileage  at  the  rate  of  forty  cents  per  mile:  Provided, 
further,  That  the  Secretary  of  AVar  may  appoint  and  assign  any'non- 
commissioued  officer  or  private  to  perform  the  duties  under  this  act  who 
may  be  unfit  for  active  service  in  the  field  because  of  wounds  received 
or  disease  contracted  in  said  service,  and  t|^  pay  and  allowances  of 
such  non-commissioned  officer  or  private,  when  so  appointed  and  assign- 
ed, shall  be  the  same  as  are  allowed  to  persons  so  appointed  who  may 
li'it  be  liable  to  military  service. 


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Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  coase  and  determine  on  the  first  day  of  Janu- 
ary, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-five,  ea«t  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and 
on  the  first  day  of  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-five,  west  of  the 
Mississippi  river  :  and  nil  claims  of  the  description  aforesaid,  not  pre- 
sented to  the  agent  aforesaid  prior  to  said  dates  at  the  respective  places 
mentioned,  shall  not  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  this  act.  [Approved 
June  14,  1864.] 

Confederate  Status  op  AMEniCA, 
Department  op  Justice. 
I  do  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  an  act  of  the 
Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  approved  on  the  14th 
day  of  June,  1864,  and  of  which  the  original  roll  is  deposited  in  this 
office. 

In  faith  whereof  I  have  hereunto  signed  my  name  and  affixed  the 
[l.  .s.]     seal  of  this  department,  at  Richmond,  this  17th  day  of  June, 
1864. 

Geo.  Davis,  Attorney-General. 

1.  In  every  congressional  district  there  will  be  appointed  an  agent 
to  perform  the  duties  prescribed  in  the  preceding  act  of  Congress, 
whose  names  will  be  announced  in  orders,  and  who,  immediately  after 
notice  thereof,  will  proceed  to  the  fulfilment  of  the  duties  imposed  in 
the  same.  He  will  hold  one  or  more  sessions  in  each  county  in  his  dis- 
trict, and  give  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  holding  the  same,  and  of 
the  order  of  proceeding  at,  and  the  probuble  duration  of  the  session. 
The  operation  of  the  act  is  limited  to  a  specific  time,  and  each  agent  is 
required  to  tn»e  measures  for  the  full  performance  of  its  requirements, 
and  for  securing  to  every  claimant  an  opportunity  of  presenting  and 
proving  his  just  claim.  ' 

2.  Every  claim  under  this  act  shall  be  presented  in  writing  to  the 
agent  for  the  district  in  which  the  claim.ant  resides,  supported  by  his 
oath  as  to  the  justice  of  the  same,  and  by  the  affidavit  of  one  or  more 
witnesses  :  iind  the  claimant  shall  also  st.ate  by  whom  his  property  was 
impressed  or  taken,  and  at  what  time,  and  for  what  purpose,  and  at 
what  price,  and  shall  produce  any  written  evidence  in  his  pos.'sessioa 
relative  to  the  same  :  Provided,  if  the  claimant  bo  dead,  or  be  pre- 
vented by  any  cause  from  appearing  before  the  agent,  proof  shall  be 
submitted  as  to  the  fact  and  the  occasion  therefor,  and  other  proof  of  the 
claim  may  be  taken.  The  exact  value  of  the  property  must  bo  proved,  ' 
and  no  speculative  or  contingent  damages  or  values  are  to  be  assessed. 

3.  The  .agent  shall,  whenever  it  may  be  deemed  expedient,  examine 
the  claimant  .and  the  witnesses  orally,  upon  the  subject  of  the  claim, 
and  record  their  testimony. 

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4.  The  agents  appointed  under  this  act  will  take  the  testimony  of  the 
rarious  ofiScers  of  the  army  who  may  have  been  concerned  in  the  im- 
pressment or  appropriation  of  any  of  the  property  in  reference  to  which 
claims  shall  be  made,  and  will  ascertain  by  what  authority  the  same 
was  taken,  for  what  purpose,  and  at  what  time,  and  moreoyer  will  make 
special  inquiry  as  to  tho  use  which  was  made  of  the  same,  and  inquire 
of  all  facts  pertinent  to  the  subject. 

5.  Great  care  should  be  taken  in  the  investigations  to  be  made  under 
this  act  to  ascertain  the  justice  and  aeduracy  of  any  claim  that  may  be 
preferred,  and  to  prevent  fraudulent  or  exaggerated  claims  from  being 
allowed,  and  for  that  purpose  all  the  circumstances  connected  with  the 
impressment,  or  appropriation,  or  employment  of  property  should  be 
examined.  The  name,  rank,  and  authority  of  the  officer  should  be 
reported,  and  whatever  else  that  may  throw  light  upon  the  transac- 
tion. 

6.  All  the  powers  conferred  by  this  act,  and  all  the  duties  prescribed 
by  the  same,  are  devolved  upon  the  agents  appointed  under  it,  and 
within  the  time  limited  in  the  act  they  will  make  their  report  to  the 
Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury. 

By  order.  8.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inapecior'General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,'*  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genebal's  Ofhce, 

No.  55.  J  Richmond,  June  20,  1864. 

I.. Under  the  act  of  Congress  entitled  an  act  to''d6'ganize  military 
courts,  etc.,  approved  June  14,  1864  (General  Orders  63,  No.  22),  mil- 
itary courts  will,  as  soon  as  practicable,  select  and  report  to  this  office 
for  assignment  as  clerks  and  marshals  of  those  courts  commissioned 
and  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  unable  to  perform  duty  in 
the  field.  With  the  report  will  be  forwarded  the  evidence  of  the  disa- 
bility of  the  persons  recommended. 

II.  .Company,  regimental,  brigade,  and  division  commanders  will  re- 
porc  to  the  general  commanding  the  army  or  department  any  commis- 
sioned, non-commissioned  officer,  or  private  in  the  cavalry  service  who 
misbehaves  before  the  enemy,  or  who  wastes  or  appropriates  to  his  own 
use  private  property,  or  who  does  violence  to  any  citizen. 

The  general  commanding  will  take  action  (under  General  Orders  63, 
No.  26)  upon  the  report,  and  forward  his  order  in  each  case,  with  a 
statement  of  the  facts,  for  the  information  of  the  department. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector- Oaneral. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  iNepEOTon-GxmRAL'B  OFnos, 

No.  56.  f  Richmond,  June  28,  1864. 

The  following  order  Is  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned : 

ExcHANOB  Notice,  No.  11. 

Richmond,  Va.,  June  27,  1864. 
.AH  officers  and  men  of  the  Vicksburg  capture  of  July  4,  1863,  who 
reported-  for  duty  either  at  Enterprise,  Miss.,  Demopolis,  Ala,,  Jones- 
boro',  Tenn.,  Vienna,  Natchitoches,  Shreveport,  or  Alexandria,  La.,  nt 
any  time  prior  to  April  1,  1864,  and  whose  names  hare  been  forwarded 
to  me  by  the  proper  officers,  tiro  hereby  declared  exchanged. 

Ro.   OULD, 
Agent  of  Exchane/e. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  a7td  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adjutant  and  lNePi:oTOR-GBi»xitAi,'s  Opficb, 

No.  57.  i  Richmond,  June  30, 1864. 

I.  .Persons  between  eighteen  and  forty-five  years  of  age  will  not  be 
permitted  to  hold  office  in  the  reserve  furcos  unless  they  are  physically 
unfit  for  active  field  duty. 

II.  .Staff  officers  for  the  reserve  forces  will  bo  appointed  from  that 
class,  or  assigned  from  the  lists  oi  retired  or  8npernumerar.y  officers. 

III.. Men  detailed  from  the  army  will  constitute  a  portion  of  the 
reserve  forces  at  the  posts  where  they  are  serving,  and  will  do  duty 
with  them  when  the  reserves  are  called  into  activi.-  service. 

IV.. The  appropriation  made  by  the  act  of  Congress  approved 
February  17,  1861,  for  the  pay  of  officers,  non-commissioned  officers, 
privates,  and  clerks,  iiicludiii;,'  current  and  extraordinary  expenses  in 
the  conscription  service,  will  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury  upon  re- 
quisitions, in  the  usual  form,  made  by  the  Superintendent  of  the 
Bureau  of  Conscription  in  favor  of  such  bonded  officers  as  may  bo 
designated  by  him. 

v.. Funds    will   be   placed    in    the    hands    of   such    quart erma-stcrs 
,  attached  to  the  conscript  service  in  each  state  as  mny  be  deemed  expo- 


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dient  by  the  Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  and  will 
bo  disbursed  upon  similar  vouchers,  and,  as  near  as  may  be,  according 
to  the  forms  and  regulations  prescribed  for  the  Quartermaster's  depart- 
ment. All  returns,  vouchers,  reports,  accounts  current,  abstracts,  and 
summary  statements,  connected  with  the  disbursement  of  these  funds, 
will  be  forwarded  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  at  the  stated  periods, 
and  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  by  the  general  regulations  of 
the  Quartermaster's  department. 

VI.  .AH  accounts  for  pay  of  officers,  clerks,  and  employees,  and  for 
current  and  extraordinary  expenses  of  the  conscription  service,  will  be 
paid  only  upon  the  order  or  approval  of  the  Commandant  of  Conscripts 
for  the  state  wherein  such  accounts  and  expenses  may  be  incurred  ;  or 
upon  tbe  order  or  approval  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of 
Conscription. 

VII.  .The  compensation  and  commutation,  or  other  allowances  of 
officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  and  privates  of  the  army,  who  may 
be  detailed  for  service  under  the  orders  of  the  Bureau  of  Conscription, 
will  be  paid,  as  heretofore,  by  quartermasters,  out  of  the  appropriation 
for  pay  of  the  army  and  the  service  of  the  Quartermaster's  department. 

VIII.  .The  Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of  Conscription  will  estab- 
lish such  additional  special  regulations  as  ho  may  deem  necessary  for 
the  instruction  and  control  of  disbursing  and  other  officers  of  the  con- 
script service  in  the  disbursement  of  the  appropriation  for  that  ser- 
vice. 

IX.  .When  a  command  is  ordered  away  or  separated  from  the  com- 
missary of  subsistence  under  whom  a  hospital  fund  has  accrued,  he 
will  turn  over  the  fund  to  the  commissary  or  acting  comraisssary  of 
such  command. 

X.. Paragraph  VII,  General  Orders,  No.  125  (1863),  is  hereby  re- 
voked. 

Commanding  officers  of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  will  cause  to  be 
made  out,  on  the  first  and  fifteenth  of  each  month,  a  roll  of  all  desert- 
ers and  absentees  from  their  commands,  and  forward  the  same  through 
the  proper  channels  to  Brigadier-General  John  S.  Preston,  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Bureau  of  Conscription. 

The  roll  will  embrace  the  company  and  regiment  to  which  the  de-  ' 
serter  or  absentee  belongs,   the  county  in  which  he  resides,  wh^re  it  is 
supposed  he  may  be  found,  and  such  other  information  as  may  lead  to 
bis   prompt  arrest.     This  order  will  not   apply  to    commands   in    the 
trans-Mississippi  department. 


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XI.. The  reserve  forces  of  the  several  states  are  under  the  perma- 
nent direction  and  control  of  the  general  oflBcors  respectively  assigned 
to  their  command  by  the  President. 

Department,  district,  and  other  commanders  of  the  active  forces  may 
have,  for  the  time  being,  the  direction  of  the  military  movements  of 
such  reserve  forces  as  may  be  turned  over  to  their  command  for  service, 
but  are  forbidden  to  disband  those  forces  or  otherwise  interfere  with 
any  matters  pertaining  to  their  permanent  organization,  except  with 
the  concurrence  of  the  general  commanding  the  reserves  of  a  state. 

XII.. When  no  longer  required  for  service  with  the  active  forces, 
the  reserve  troops  will  be  immediately  turned  over  to  the  commander 
of  reserves  for  the  state. 

XIII.  .General  officers  commanding  reserves  for  the  several  states 
will  be  held  responsible  in  all  matters  relating  to  the  efficiency  and 
permanent  organization  of  their  commands. 

XIV.. Leaves  of  absence  and  furloughs  will  not  be  granted  tore- 
serve  troops  except  by  the  "general  commanding  the  reserves  for  tho 
states  to  which  they  belong,  or  in  accordance  with  regulations  pre- 
scribed in  his  orders ;  but  leaves  of  absence  and  furloughs  will  not  be 
granted  to  reserve  forces  serving  in  the  field  if,  in  the  judgment  of  de- 
partment commanders,  it  be  incompatible  with  the  public  safety  to 
grant  them. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General- 


APPENDIX. 


CIRCULAR. 

Abjctaw*  and  iKSPBoroR-QMtKBAi's  Omox, 
Richmond,  June  4, 1864. 

The  following  general  iustructions  are  published  for  the  guidance  of 
inspectors  in  the  performance  of  their  duties : 

INSPECTION    Oy    ARMIES. 

First,  report  to  the  commander  of  the  armj'  to  be  inspected,  and  re- 
quest his  co-operation  in  so  far  as  it  may  be  necessary  to  secure  facili- 
ties for  making  an  inspection.  Obtain  from  him  such  information 
respecting  the  condition  of  his  army  as  he  may  deem  proper  to  com- 
municate, and  request  any  suggestions  which  may  lead  to  the  more  in- 
telligent performance  of  the  duty,  or  call  attention  to  points  requiring 
especial  examination  and  report.  Exnniine  the  oflice  records  of  the 
army  head-quarters,  in  order  to  secure  a  proper  understanding  of  the 
system  of  government  prevailing  in  each  urmy,  and  the  extent  to  which 
it  is  observed.  The  inspection  of  the  troops  of  the  different  organiza- 
tions composing  the  army  will  be  made  in  the  manner  herein  prescribed 
for  inspectors  serving  with  armies,  looking  especially  to  their  arma- 
ment, discipline,  drill,  and  sanitary  condition  j  the  relative  efiBciency  of 
the  different  organizations,  and  the  merits  of  their  officers;  and  where 
the  differences  are  marked,  the  causes  thereof — as  such  information,  if 
unprejudiced,  may  lead  to  the  promotion  of  the  meritorious.  As  to  in- 
telligent and  efficient  staff  officers  properly  carrying  out  the  orders  and 
intentions  of  commanders  the  success  of  an  army  is  in  a  large  manner 
due,  their  ncquaintance  with  and  faithful  performance  of  the  duties 
pertaining  to  their  respective  departments  will  be  critically  observed, 
and  where  found  to  bo  inefficient  or  negligent,  they  will  be  so  reported- 
All  officers  with  the  commands  inspected,  who  are  in  excess  of  the 
number  authorized  by  law  and  orders,  will  be  reported,  with  the  nature 
of  their  duties,  and  the  circumstance  of  their  assignment. 

The  supplies  pertaining  to  the  different  departments  being  difficult  to 
procure,  especial  at  lontion  will  be  given  to  the  due  observBiice  of  proper 


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responsibility  by  the  officers  of  each  respectively,  seeing  that  all  prop- 
ertj'  is  properly  preserved,  or  distributed  strictly  in  accordance  with 
allowances  authorized  by  orders.  Learn  the  sources  from  whence  sup- 
plies are  drawn,  their  amount  and  availability  for  the  present  and  the 
future,  their  nature,  and  tho  system  under  which  they  are  collected. 
Call  attention  to  any  obstacles  in  the  way  of  their  procurement,  and 
suggest  any  improvements  calculated  to  secure  their  more  prompt, 
abundant,  and  economical  delivery. 

As  impressment  is  sometimes  necessary  to  secure  supplies,  and  in- 
justice is  occasionally  inflicted  through  the  indiscretion  or  viciousness 
of  agents,  impress  upon  officers  resorting  to  it  the  importance  of  soften- 
ing its  rigors  by  explanations  of  the  law,  and  the  courteous  assertion 
of  duty  under  it,  leaving  in  all  instances  the  certificates  required  by 
General  Orders,  Nos.  30  and  39,  Adjutant  ahd  Inspector-General's 
office,  current  series.  In  passing  through  neighborhoods  where  im- 
pressments have  been  made,  inspectors  should  listen  to  all  complaints; 
advise  those  really  aggrieved  how,  under  orders,  to  redress  their  wrongs, 
and  note  the  names  of  the  impressing  officers,  the  amounts  impressed, 
and  dates  of  impressments,  with  the  view  to  offer  comparison,  in  ex- 
amining the  officers'  accounts,  of  the  facts  so  reported  with  those  ex- 
hibited by  their  vouchers. 

DUTIES    OF    INSPECTORS    SERVING    WITH    ARMIES. 

Inspect  troops  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  Article  XXX,  and  for  the 
purposes  indicated  in  paragraphs  459  and  460  of  the  Army  Regula- 
tions, published  by  authority  of  the  War  department  in  1862. 

The  number,  appearance,  and  bearing  of  officers  and  men  present  at 
inspection,  and  of  their  arms  and  accoutrements,  should  be  ascertained, 
and  also  that  all  arms,  or  parts  of  arms  and  accoutrements  lost,  have 
been  properly  accounted  for,  in  accordance  with  General  Orders,  No. 
148,  of  1863,  and  No.  6,  current  series,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspec- 
tor-General's office. 

The  inspections  under  arms  completed,  examine  the  police  of  camps, 
quarters,  hospitals,  and  guard-houses,  the  number  of  prisoners  in  the 
latter,  and  the  nature  of  the  charges  against  each  ;  the  messing  ar- 
rangements, and  the  character  and  quantity  of  the  rations  issued.  If 
troops  inspected  are  artillery  or  cavalry,  see  that  guns  and  caissons 
are  properly  parked,  ammunition  chests  filled  and  properly  packed, 
and  the  ammunition  dry  and  serviceable ;  that  harness  and  horse  equip- 
ments are  properly  cleansed,  greased,  and  placed  on  racks  raised  from 
the  ground;  the  number,  character,  and  condition  of  the  guns,  caissons, 
and  horses;  and  that  the  latter  are  properly  groomed  and  fed,  and 
never  used  except  on  public  service;  the  number  of  stables,  and    their 


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location — which  should  bo  upon  dry,  sloping  ground,  and  well  protected 
from  the  northern  winds.  The  samo  examination  should  bo  extended 
to  all  army  transportation,  as  regards  stabling,  and  the  care  bestowed 
npon  animals,  harness,  and  vehicles. 

Tho  company,  regimental,  and  brigade' records  should  bo  next  exam- 
ined with  reference  to  tho  strength,  present  and  absent — reporting  by 
name  all  olhccrs,  and  numerically  all  cnli.sted  men,  improperly  absent 
from  inspection  or  their  commands  ;  and  ascertaining  if  lists  required 
to  be  furnished  by  General  Orders,  Nos.  125  and  130,  of  1863,  from  tho 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  olFicc,  arc  regularly  forwarded. 

Observe  the  correspondence  in  number   of  tho  rations  drawn  with 
that  of  tho  men  entitled  to  draw,  actually  present  with  the  command.  • 
This  correspondence  to  bo   verified  by  examination  of  tho  brigade  re- 
ports, and  the  abstract  of  issues  made  by  the  brigade  commissary. 

Seo  that  regimental  returns  and  reports  of  ordnance  are  regularly 
made.  Knowing,  from  inspection,  the  number  of  arms  in  tho  hands  of 
tho  men  inspected,  they,  with  those  in  charge  of  the  ordnance  sergeant, 
and  others  accounted  for  by  certificates  of  boards  of  survey,  should 
cover  the  responsibility  of  the  regimental  commanders. 

Learn  whether  the  orders  issued  from  the  War  department,  and  tho 
difi"eront  head-quarters  of  the  army,  are  duly  promulgated,  understood, 
and  observed  throughout  the  commands  inspected. 

Examine  the  medical  department  with  reference  to  provision  made 
for  tho  sick,  their  hospitals,  medical  supplies,  tho  sanitary  condition  of 
their  commands,  the  elficiency  and  capability  of  the  medical  olficers, 
and  that  all  required  returns  and  reports  are  promptly  rendered.  The 
property  ajjd  money  accounts  of  quartermasters  and  commissaries 
should  next  be  examined,  seeing  that  they  are  correct  and  promptly 
rendered;  that  all  public  property  is  properly  appropriated;  that  for- 
age received  and  issued  is  ouly  given  to  animals  legitimately  within  tho 
command,  and  subsistence  only  to  troops  actually  present,  and  that 
sales  to  officers  are  limited  to  regulation  allowance — reporting  all  irregu- 
larities, and  inefficiency  or  neglect  of  duty  on  the  part  of  ollicers,  and 
all  emploj'ees,  vehicles,  and  uuimals  in  excess  over  those  authorized  in 
orders. 

The  ordnance  department  will  be  similarly  examined.  Tho  employ- 
ees in  all  these  departments  should  be  men  unfit  for  active  duly  iu  tho 
ranks,  as  far  as  the  nature  of  the  duties  to  be  performed  will  permit. 
The  number  of  detailed  men  employed  should  be  reduced  to  tho  lowest 
limit,  and  all  supernumeraries  and  able-bodie.d  men  be  remanded  to  the 
ranks.  • 

Inspectors  will  attend  drills  occa.«ionally,  or  at  stated  times,  and  call 
upon  olficers  to  put  their  commands  through  any  movements  within  Its 
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school.  Lieutenants  should  understand  company,  captains  and  field- 
officers  regimental,  and  colonels  brigade  drill,  as  the  casualties  of  ser- 
vice freqtiently  impose  upon  officers  commands  above  the  grades  which 
they  hold. 

Inspectors  will  frequently  ride  through  and  about  the  neighborhood 
of  their  camps,  observe  the  condition  of  enclosures,  private  property, 
crops,  etc.,  etc. ;  repress  all  irregularities  or  depredations,  and  where 
committed,  cause  prompt  indemnity  to  the  injured  and  punishment  of 
offenders.  As  troops  habitually  encamp  by  brigades,  and  establish 
guards  for  the  protection  of  all  neighboring  property,  and  the  pi'oserva- 
tion  of  order  and  discipline  within  their  own  camps,  such  irregularities 
among  well  organized  and  disciplined  troops  rarely  occur. 

B«(fore  leaving  vacated  camps,  inspectors  will  ride  over  the  ground 
encamped  upon  by  the  troops,  and  cause  all  property  left  by  them  to  be 
collected  and  placed  in  tho  wagons.  The  regimental  quartermaster 
and  ordnance  sergeant  should  be  required  to  do  this  in  each  regiment. 
Do  the  same  witb.  all  arms,  accoutrements,  or  other  property  left  by 
stragglers  on  the  line  of  march,  andif  left  by  those  of  his  own  command, 
bring  offenders  to  trial ;  or  if  noi,  turn  property  so  collected  over  to  the 
department  to  which  it  pertains.  Arms,  etc.,  thus  found,  will  be  placed 
in  any  wagon,  irrespective  of  commands,  most  easily  reached.  Roll- 
calls  and  an  examination  of  arms,  which  should  be  invariably  made  in 
every  company  at  the  cotnmencement  and  at  the  end  of  each  day's 
march,  would  measurably  prevent  both  straggling  and  the  loss  of  arms, 
and  every  inspector  should  secure  within  his  command  the  publication 
of  an  order  enjoining  this  duty,  and  look  to  its  strict  observance.  Ho 
will  pass  frequently  along  the  line  of  march,  cause  the  ranks  to  be  kept 
properly  closed,  and  all  straggler.s,  whether  of  his  own  or  other  com- 
mands, to  rejoin  their  companies  ;  or  if  this  is  impracticable,  turn  them 
over  to  the  nearest  provost  guard,  to  be  marched  forward  and  returned 
at  the  end  of  the  march.  See  that  the  second  officer  in  rank,  with  one 
of  the  medical  officers  of  each  regiment  or  battalion,  is  in  rear  of  his 
command,  to  preserve  order,  prevent  straggling,  and  to  give  written 
authority  to  the  sick  and  broken-down  to  ride  in  tho  wagons  or  ambu- 
lances moving  with  the  brigade. 

Note  the  names  of  stragglers,  and  those  of  their  regimental  and  com- 
pany commanders,  who  will  be  held  responsible  for  their  neglect  of 
duty  in  permitting  such  irregularity,  and  required  to  give  their  imme- 
diate attention  to  ics  correction.  See  thtit  staff  officers  in  charge  of 
trains  or  public  property  are  with  their  respective  trusts,  and  hold  them 
responsible  for  all  irregularities  committed  by  their  employees. 

Preparatory  to  battle,  inspectors  will  locate  their  provost  guards  at 
eligible  points  for  arresting  all  stragglers  :  acquaint  themeelvee  with  tho 


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localities  of  the  ordnance,  supply,  and  ambulance  trains,  and  of  the  field 
hospitals;  tho  character  of  the  grounds  in  the  vicinity  of  their  com- 
mands, front  and  rear,  and  of  all  roads  to  and  from  tho  line  of  battle, 
and  connecting  with  the  main  travelled  roads  in  rear  ;  the  troops  sup- 
porting both  flanks;  tho  position  of  reserves;  tho  watchfulness  observ- 
ed by  pickets  and  skirmishers  thrown  to  the  front — and  report  this,  and 
all  other  information  derived  from  tho  examination  of  prisoners  or 
other  sources,  which  may  prove  important  in  aiding  his  commander  in 
the  intelligent  porformnnce  of  his  duties. 

In  the  intervals  of  tho  fight,  where  practicable,  he  will  cause  to  bo 
collected  all  arms,  accoutrements,  or  other  movable  property  left  by  • 
our  own  men  or  the  enemy,  to  points  in  .rear  easily  accessible  for  tho 
wagons.  They  will  keep  an  account  of  all  captures  made  by  their  com-' 
mands,  whether  of  prisoners  or  property — sending  in  a  tabular  state- 
ment of  the  same  after  the  battle,  in  order  that  each  command  may  re- 
ceive due  credit  for  its  service  ;  and  cause  all  property  captured  or  col- 
lected to  be  turned  over  on  publio  account  to  tho  officers  of  the  depart- 
ment to  which  it  pertains. 

INSPECTION    OF    niSTUICTS. 

These  inspections  involve  more  general  duties  than  those  of  an  army 
in  the  examinations  of  tho  various  public  interests  located  at  the  nume- 
rous posts,  depots,  camps  of  instruction,  or  other  institutions  growing 
out  of  tho  wants  of  the  different  departments  of  the  government.  In 
making  them,  inspectors  will  give  their  e!?pecial  attention  to  the  follow- 
ing points: 

The  strength,  efficiency,  and  character  of  tho  troops  occupying  tho 
different  stations  inspected-,  recollecting  the  requirements  of  General 
Orders,  Xo.  26,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  offico,  current  series, 
while  inspecting  detailed  men  and  provost  guards,  the  latter  usually 
composing  the  garrisons  of  all  stations  other  than  posts  of  a  strictly  de- 
fensive character. 

The  strength  and  efficiency  of  the  troops  garrisoning  fortifications  ; 
the  extent  and  nature  of  the'defonsive  works,  and  their  armament;  tho 
fitness  and  sulTicicncy  of  the  rimmunition  for  th6  guns,  and  the  care 
bestowed  upon  its  preservation  ;  and  that  all  other  supplies  necessary 
to  the  mninleuance  of  a  vigoroiis  and  efi"cctive  defence  are  on  hand. 

The  money  and  property  accounts  of  all  disbursing  otlicers  within  the 
district  inspected,  and  their  prompt  rendition  at  prescribed  periods,  to 
the  chiefs  of  departments  to  which  they  belong. 

That  all  public  property,  wherever  found,  is  properly  caret-  for,  and 
in  charge  of  responsible  agents,  and  in  no  instance  misapplied. 

That  adorjuat©  storage  is  provided  for  the  protection  of  all  storea 


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collected  at  depots,  and  that  ■  the  suppliea  received  correspond  with 
amounts  invoiced;  or  if  not,  the  measures  adopted  to  correot  the  defi- 
ciency. 

That  rations,  wherever  issued,  correspond  strictly  with  the  number 
of  men  present  and  entitled  to  them ;  and  where  this  number  varies 
between  the  regular  periods  of  issue,  that  any  surplus  thereby  accumu- 
lated is  deducted  from  the  next  returns.  That  impressing  officers, 
where  supplies  are  obtained  by  impressment,  conform  strictly  to  regu- 
lations and  orders  governing  this  system. 

The  means  adopted  by  tax  officers  to  collect  the  tax  in  kind  ;  the  re« 
sources  of  the  country  within  their  respective  districts,  if  faithfully  and 
impartially  assessed  and  collected ;  the  amount  of  supplies  collected 
and  remaining  uncollected ;  the  facilities  for  their  transportation  from 
points  of  production  to  the  depots,  and  thence  to  points  of  consump- 
tion ;  and  the  intelligence,  integrity,  and  energy  of  officers  and  agenta 
employed  in  this  duty. 

The  authority  under  which  detailed  men  are  acting  in  the  differ- 
ent departments  in  the  employment  of  government  contractors,  and  that 
they  are  reduced  to  the  lowest  number  which  will  accomplish  the  work 
to  be  performed.  All  supernumeraries  to  bo  reported,  in  order  that 
they  may  bo  remanded  to  their  commands. 

The  arrangements  adopted  at  camps  of  instruction  for  the  accommo- 
dation and  instruction  of  conscripts,  and  for  their  examination,  distri- 
bution to  commands,  and  exemptions  :  and  the  number  received,  as- 
signed to  duty,  or  exempted  within  the  year. 

'  The  records  at  conscript  agencies;  that  they  show  thorough  enrol- 
ments, collection,  and  examination  of  all  persons  of  conscript  age  with- 
in each  district;  that  the  examinations  by  the  medical  boards  are 
strict  and  impartial,  and  where  giving  exemptions  on  account  of  physi- 
cal disability,  that  they  act  strictly  in  compliance  with  regulations 
and  the  true  interests  of  tho  service. 

The  energj'  with  which  conscript  officers  apprehend  and  return  to 
their  commands  all  deserters,  and  olUcers  and  men  improperly  absent; 
and  their  strictness  in  enforcing  the  orders  relating  to  sick,  furloughed, 
or  retired  officers  and  men  within  their  districts. 

That  registers  are  kept  at  each  agency  of  all  men  of  conscript  ago, 
and  of  all  exempted,  detailed,  furloughed,  or  retired  officers  and  men 
within  their  districts,  and  the  authority  under  which  each  is  acting. 

The  management  of  hospitals,  the  number  of  invalids  they  receive, 
return  restored  to  their  commands,  transfer  to  other  hospitals,  or  who 
have  died  within  them  during  the  month  preceding  inspection.  The 
number  and  efficiency  of  officers  and  men  employed  at  each,  the 
quality  and  quantity  of  supplies,  and  that  no  rations,  other  than  those 


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issaed  to  men  in  the  field,  aro  allowed  within  the  hospitals,  except  to 
the  sick,  for  whose  use  alone  all  extra  supplies  aro  designed. 

At  depots  in  rear  of  the  armies,  adjuncts  thereof,  and  at  which  all  sur^ 
plus  supplies  aro  accumulated,  shops  for  repairs  are  established,  and  to 
which  unserviceable  animals  are  sent  back  to  recruit;  examine  the  dif« 
ferent  departments,  and  the  efficacy  of  measures  adopted  bj  each  to 
carry  out  these  various  objects. 

To  perform  ctliciently  their  duties,  inspectors  will  acquaint  them- 
selves with  the  regulations  and  orders  governing  all  branches  of  the 
service  issued  from  the  War  department,  or  the  head-quarters  of  the 
army  with  which  they  are  serving.  This  knowledge  is  indispensable, 
as  it  is  the  duty  of  the  inspector  to  soe  that  all  orders  are  understood 
and  obeyed  by  the  command  with  which  he  is  serving,  or  which  he  is 
inspecting.  Army  regulations,  the  tactics  of  different  arms  of  tiro 
service,  and  General  Orders  from  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's 
office  up  to  the  close  of  each  year,  can  be  purchased  at  the  bookstores. 
Within  the  year  the  orders  aro  so  distributed  throughout  all  the  armies 
as  to  be  accessible  to  all.  Tho  regulations  of  the  different  departments 
arc  usually  to  be  found  in  the  hands  of  their  officers  in  each  brigade. 

Inspections  are  intended  to  secure  greater  efficiency  throughout  the 
service,  in  procuring  the  strict  observance  of  orders,  the  correction  of 
abuses,  and  in  bringing  to  the  notice  of  tho  authorities  the  merits  and 
demerits  of  all  military  officers  and  organizations,  and  such  other  in- 
formation as  will  acquaint  them  with  tho  condition  of  tho  different 
commands,  and  enable  them  to  act  advisedly  in  making  any  changes 
necessary  for  the  advancement  of  the  public  interests. 

Inspectors,  while  critically  inspecting  each  command  with  a  view  to* 
full  information  respecting  its  condition,  should  be  exceedingly  cau- 
tious in  forming  their  opinions — which  should  bo  based  upon  reliable 
facts  and  personal  observation.  They  will  look  only  to  tho  public  in- 
terest in  making  their  reports.  Patience,  courtesy,  and  firmness  should 
characterize  their  performance  of  duty  in  every  position,  with  a  strict 
avoidance  of  all  action  approaching  a  "detective"  character.  While 
their  reports  are  to  be  strictly  confidential,  except  in  so  far  as  the  au- 
thorities to  whom  they  are  made  may  deem  it  expedient  to  discloao 
them,  all  inspections,  and  tho  relations  between  the  inspector  and  the 
inspected,  must  bo  perfectly  ingenuous,  impartial,  and  soldierly. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oencral. 


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